Commit ad324e94 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds

memcg: no uncharged pages reach page_cgroup_zoneinfo

This patch series removes the direct page pointer from struct page_cgroup,
which saves 20% of per-page memcg memory overhead (Fedora and Ubuntu
enable memcg per default, openSUSE apparently too).

The node id or section number is encoded in the remaining free bits of
pc->flags which allows calculating the corresponding page without the
extra pointer.

I ran, what I think is, a worst-case microbenchmark that just cats a large
sparse file to /dev/null, because it means that walking the LRU list on
behalf of per-cgroup reclaim and looking up pages from page_cgroups is
happening constantly and at a high rate.  But it made no measurable
difference.  A profile reported a 0.11% share of the new
lookup_cgroup_page() function in this benchmark.

This patch:

All callsites check PCG_USED before passing pc->mem_cgroup, so the latter
is never NULL.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f212ad7c
......@@ -370,9 +370,6 @@ page_cgroup_zoneinfo(struct page_cgroup *pc)
int nid = page_cgroup_nid(pc);
int zid = page_cgroup_zid(pc);
if (!mem)
return NULL;
return mem_cgroup_zoneinfo(mem, nid, zid);
}
......
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