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Commit 86d9f485 authored by Joonsoo Kim's avatar Joonsoo Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/slab: fix kmemcg cache creation delayed issue

There is a bug report that SLAB makes extreme load average due to over
2000 kworker thread.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981

This issue is caused by kmemcg feature that try to create new set of
kmem_caches for each memcg.  Recently, kmem_cache creation is slowed by
synchronize_sched() and futher kmem_cache creation is also delayed since
kmem_cache creation is synchronized by a global slab_mutex lock.  So,
the number of kworker that try to create kmem_cache increases quietly.

synchronize_sched() is for lockless access to node's shared array but
it's not needed when a new kmem_cache is created.  So, this patch rules
out that case.

Fixes: 801faf0d ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475734855-4837-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com


Reported-by: default avatarDoug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Tested-by: default avatarDoug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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