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    slab: implement slab_root_caches list · 510ded33
    Tejun Heo authored
    With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and
    destroyed frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can
    accumulate if there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not
    under memory pressure.  When memory reclaim starts under such
    conditions, it can lead to consecutive deactivation and destruction of
    many kmem_caches, easily hundreds of thousands on moderately large
    systems, exposing scalability issues in the current slab management
    code.  This is one of the patches to address the issue.
    
    slab_caches currently lists all caches including root and memcg ones.
    This is the only data structure which lists the root caches and
    iterating root caches can only be done by walking the list while
    skipping over memcg caches.  As there can be a huge number of memcg
    caches, this can become very expensive.
    
    This also can make /proc/slabinfo behave very badly.  seq_file processes
    reads in 4k chunks and seeks to the previous Nth position on slab_caches
    list to resume after each chunk.  With a lot of memcg cache churns on
    the list, reading /proc/slabinfo can become very slow and its content
    often ends up with duplicate and/or missing entries.
    
    This patch adds a new list slab_root_caches which lists only the root
    caches.  When memcg is not enabled, it becomes just an alias of
    slab_caches.  memcg specific list operations are collected into
    memcg_[un]link_cache().
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-7-tj@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarJay Vana <jsvana@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@tarantool.org>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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