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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2017-02-22 15:41:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -0800 |
| commit | 50862ce711b3e9cf8511df7a356892e128b037d3 (patch) | |
| tree | a65cd9b2c8fe319bd8cce533c0977e7932d3442e | |
| parent | 01fb58bcba63f8fba37581c24c99e9a515dd0335 (diff) | |
slab: remove slub sysfs interface files early for empty memcg caches
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.
Each cache has a number of sysfs interface files under /sys/kernel/slab.
On a system with a lot of memory and transient memcgs, the number of
interface files which have to be removed once memory reclaim kicks in
can reach millions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-10-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jay Vana <jsvana@fb.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slub.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 62d0b557a596..af38aaad34b0 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -3959,8 +3959,20 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s) #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG static void kmemcg_cache_deact_after_rcu(struct kmem_cache *s) { - /* called with all the locks held after a sched RCU grace period */ - __kmem_cache_shrink(s); + /* + * Called with all the locks held after a sched RCU grace period. + * Even if @s becomes empty after shrinking, we can't know that @s + * doesn't have allocations already in-flight and thus can't + * destroy @s until the associated memcg is released. + * + * However, let's remove the sysfs files for empty caches here. + * Each cache has a lot of interface files which aren't + * particularly useful for empty draining caches; otherwise, we can + * easily end up with millions of unnecessary sysfs files on + * systems which have a lot of memory and transient cgroups. + */ + if (!__kmem_cache_shrink(s)) + sysfs_slab_remove(s); } void __kmemcg_cache_deactivate(struct kmem_cache *s) @@ -5659,6 +5671,15 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s) */ return; + if (!s->kobj.state_in_sysfs) + /* + * For a memcg cache, this may be called during + * deactivation and again on shutdown. Remove only once. + * A cache is never shut down before deactivation is + * complete, so no need to worry about synchronization. + */ + return; + #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG kset_unregister(s->memcg_kset); #endif |