linux/mm
Greg Thelen a87c75fbcc slab: avoid IPIs when creating kmem caches
Each slab kmem cache has per cpu array caches.  The array caches are
created when the kmem_cache is created, either via kmem_cache_create()
or lazily when the first object is allocated in context of a kmem
enabled memcg.  Array caches are replaced by writing to /proc/slabinfo.

Array caches are protected by holding slab_mutex or disabling
interrupts.  Array cache allocation and replacement is done by
__do_tune_cpucache() which holds slab_mutex and calls
kick_all_cpus_sync() to interrupt all remote processors which confirms
there are no references to the old array caches.

IPIs are needed when replacing array caches.  But when creating a new
array cache, there's no need to send IPIs because there cannot be any
references to the new cache.  Outside of memcg kmem accounting these
IPIs occur at boot time, so they're not a problem.  But with memcg kmem
accounting each container can create kmem caches, so the IPIs are
wasteful.

Avoid unnecessary IPIs when creating array caches.

Test which reports the IPI count of allocating slab in 10000 memcg:

	import os

	def ipi_count():
		with open("/proc/interrupts") as f:
			for l in f:
				if 'Function call interrupts' in l:
					return int(l.split()[1])

	def echo(val, path):
		with open(path, "w") as f:
			f.write(val)

	n = 10000
	os.chdir("/mnt/cgroup/memory")
	pid = str(os.getpid())
	a = ipi_count()
	for i in range(n):
		os.mkdir(str(i))
		echo("1G\n", "%d/memory.limit_in_bytes" % i)
		echo("1G\n", "%d/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes" % i)
		echo(pid, "%d/cgroup.procs" % i)
		open("/tmp/x", "w").close()
		os.unlink("/tmp/x")
	b = ipi_count()
	print "%d loops: %d => %d (+%d ipis)" % (n, a, b, b-a)
	echo(pid, "cgroup.procs")
	for i in range(n):
		os.rmdir(str(i))

patched:   10000 loops: 1069 => 1170 (+101 ipis)
unpatched: 10000 loops: 1192 => 48933 (+47741 ipis)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170416214544.109476-1-gthelen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-03 15:52:07 -07:00
..
kasan kasan: report only the first error by default 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c cleancache: constify cleancache_ops structure 2016-01-27 09:09:57 -05:00
cma_debug.c mm: cma_alloc: allow to specify GFP mask 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
cma.c mm: cma: print allocation failure reason and bitmap status 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
cma.h
compaction.c sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
debug_page_ref.c mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
debug.c mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page() 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c mm: fault-inject take over bootstrap kmem_cache check 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-02 11:18:50 -07:00
frame_vector.c mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags 2016-10-19 08:11:24 -07:00
frontswap.c mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
gup.c Revert "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation" 2017-04-23 11:45:20 +02:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make nr_free_highpages() handles all highmem zones by itself 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
huge_memory.c thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm, hugetlb_cgroup: round limit_in_bytes down to hugepage size 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: don't call region_abort if region_chg fails 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm: move pcp and lru-pcp draining into single wq 2017-04-08 00:47:49 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: remove AVR32 arch special handling in mm/Kconfig 2017-05-01 09:36:31 +02:00
Kconfig.debug mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA 2017-02-27 18:43:48 -08:00
khugepaged.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
kmemcheck.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: fix section name for .data..ro_after_init 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
ksm.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref 2016-10-27 18:43:42 -07:00
maccess.c x86: remove more uaccess_32.h complexity 2016-05-22 17:21:27 -07:00
madvise.c userfaultfd: non-cooperative: userfaultfd_remove revalidate vma in MADV_DONTNEED 2017-03-09 17:01:10 -08:00
Makefile mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA 2017-02-27 18:43:48 -08:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: fix memblock_next_valid_pfn() 2017-03-09 17:01:10 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm: do not call mem_cgroup_free() from within mem_cgroup_alloc() 2017-03-09 17:01:10 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: add private lock to serialize memory hotplug operations 2017-03-16 16:56:18 -07:00
memory-failure.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
memory.c Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux into uaccess.parisc 2017-04-02 10:33:48 -04:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. 2017-04-08 10:57:55 -07:00
mempool.c Revert "mm, mempool: only set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if there are free elements" 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative 2017-04-20 15:30:18 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicates 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-02 15:20:00 -08:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mremap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
nommu.c Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
oom_kill.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
page_alloc.c A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new 2017-05-02 10:21:17 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm/page_ext: support extra space allocation by page_ext user 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: fix handling PTE-mapped THPs in page_idle_clear_pte_refs() 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
page_io.c writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() 2016-11-02 10:24:03 -06:00
page_isolation.c mm, page_alloc: avoid page_to_pfn() when merging buddies 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: don't define fields on struct page_ext by hard-coding 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_poison.c mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites 2016-06-03 15:06:22 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm: fix page_vma_mapped_walk() for ksm pages 2017-04-08 00:47:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
pagewalk.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
percpu-km.c mm: percpu: use pr_fmt to prefix output 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: remove unused chunk_alloc parameter from pcpu_get_pages() 2017-03-06 15:56:55 -05:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'sched/core' into locking/core 2017-04-04 11:31:12 +02:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c fix Christoph's email addresses 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm: rmap: fix huge file mmap accounting in the memcg stats 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA 2017-02-27 18:43:48 -08:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
slab_common.c kasan: drain quarantine of memcg slab objects 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
slab.c slab: avoid IPIs when creating kmem caches 2017-05-03 15:52:07 -07:00
slab.h slab: remove synchronous synchronize_sched() from memcg cache deactivation path 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slob.c slab: introduce __kmemcg_cache_deactivate() 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
slub.c slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm/memory_hotplug: set magic number to page->freelist instead of page->lru.next 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, swap_cgroup: reschedule when neeed in swap_cgroup_swapoff() 2017-04-08 00:47:49 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
swap_state.c mm/swap: skip readahead only when swap slot cache is enabled 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
swap.c Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 23:54:56 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
truncate.c fs: add i_blocksize() 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
util.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
vmacache.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
vmalloc.c A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new 2017-05-02 10:21:17 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
vmscan.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the memalloc_noio_*() APIs to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:33 +01:00
vmstat.c mm: make mm_percpu_wq non freezable 2017-04-19 15:53:48 -07:00
workingset.c mm: workingset: fix premature shadow node shrinking with cgroups 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: expand class bit 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
zswap.c zswap: don't param_set_charp while holding spinlock 2017-02-27 18:43:45 -08:00