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Commit 10befea9 authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations

Instead of having two sets of kmem_caches: one for system-wide and
non-accounted allocations and the second one shared by all accounted
allocations, we can use just one.

The idea is simple: space for obj_cgroup metadata can be allocated on
demand and filled only for accounted allocations.

It allows to remove a bunch of code which is required to handle kmem_cache
clones for accounted allocations.  There is no more need to create them,
accumulate statistics, propagate attributes, etc.  It's a quite
significant simplification.

Also, because the total number of slab_caches is reduced almost twice (not
all kmem_caches have a memcg clone), some additional memory savings are
expected.  On my devvm it additionally saves about 3.5% of slab memory.

[guro@fb.com: fix build on MIPS]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200717214810.3733082-1-guro@fb.com



Suggested-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623174037.3951353-18-guro@fb.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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