Revision 3de7d4f25a7438f09fef4e71ef111f1805cd8e7c authored by Roman Gushchin on 24 January 2021, 05:01:07 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 24 January 2021, 17:20:52 UTC
Imran Khan reported a 16% regression in hackbench results caused by the commit f2fe7b09a52b ("mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages"). The regression is noticeable in the case of a consequent allocation of several relatively large slab objects, e.g. skb's. As soon as the amount of stocked bytes exceeds PAGE_SIZE, drain_obj_stock() and __memcg_kmem_uncharge() are called, and it leads to a number of atomic operations in page_counter_uncharge(). The corresponding call graph is below (provided by Imran Khan): |__alloc_skb | | | |__kmalloc_reserve.isra.61 | | | | | |__kmalloc_node_track_caller | | | | | | | |slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.88 | | | obj_cgroup_charge | | | | | | | | | |__memcg_kmem_charge | | | | | | | | | | | |page_counter_try_charge | | | | | | | | | |refill_obj_stock | | | | | | | | | | | |drain_obj_stock.isra.68 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |__memcg_kmem_uncharge | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |page_counter_uncharge | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |page_counter_cancel | | | | | | | | | | | |__slab_alloc | | | | | | | | | |___slab_alloc | | | | | | | | |slab_post_alloc_hook Instead of directly uncharging the accounted kernel memory, it's possible to refill the generic page-sized per-cpu stock instead. It's a much faster operation, especially on a default hierarchy. As a bonus, __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() will also get faster, so the freeing of page-sized kernel allocations (e.g. large kmallocs) will become faster. A similar change has been done earlier for the socket memory by the commit 475d0487a2ad ("mm: memcontrol: use per-cpu stocks for socket memory uncharging"). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210106042239.2860107-1-guro@fb.com Fixes: f2fe7b09a52b ("mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reported-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Tested-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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initramfs_data.S
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
/*
initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the
filesystem used for early user space.
Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23
released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin.
If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the
following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary:
ld -m elf_i386 --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \
-T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o built-in.a initramfs_data.o
For including the .init.ramfs sections, see include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.
The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures.
Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the
arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced.
Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set
in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures.
*/
.section .init.ramfs,"a"
__irf_start:
.incbin "usr/initramfs_inc_data"
__irf_end:
.section .init.ramfs.info,"a"
.globl __initramfs_size
__initramfs_size:
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
.quad __irf_end - __irf_start
#else
.long __irf_end - __irf_start
#endif
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