From a44cb9449182fd7b25bf5f1cc38b7f19e0b96f6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:39:23 -0700 Subject: memcg, slab: never try to merge memcg caches When a kmem cache is created (kmem_cache_create_memcg()), we first try to find a compatible cache that already exists and can handle requests from the new cache, i.e. has the same object size, alignment, ctor, etc. If there is such a cache, we do not create any new caches, instead we simply increment the refcount of the cache found and return it. Currently we do this procedure not only when creating root caches, but also for memcg caches. However, there is no point in that, because, as every memcg cache has exactly the same parameters as its parent and cache merging cannot be turned off in runtime (only on boot by passing "slub_nomerge"), the root caches of any two potentially mergeable memcg caches should be merged already, i.e. it must be the same root cache, and therefore we couldn't even get to the memcg cache creation, because it already exists. The only exception is boot caches - they are explicitly forbidden to be merged by setting their refcount to -1. There are currently only two of them - kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node, which are used in slab internals (I do not count kmalloc caches as their refcount is set to 1 immediately after creation). Since they are prevented from merging preliminary I guess we should avoid to merge their children too. So let's remove the useless code responsible for merging memcg caches. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Glauber Costa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.h | 21 ++++----------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/slab.h') diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h index 8184a7cde272..3045316b7c9d 100644 --- a/mm/slab.h +++ b/mm/slab.h @@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ extern void create_boot_cache(struct kmem_cache *, const char *name, struct mem_cgroup; #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB struct kmem_cache * -__kmem_cache_alias(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size, - size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)); +__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, + unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)); #else static inline struct kmem_cache * -__kmem_cache_alias(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size, - size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) +__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, + unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) { return NULL; } #endif @@ -119,13 +119,6 @@ static inline bool is_root_cache(struct kmem_cache *s) return !s->memcg_params || s->memcg_params->is_root_cache; } -static inline bool cache_match_memcg(struct kmem_cache *cachep, - struct mem_cgroup *memcg) -{ - return (is_root_cache(cachep) && !memcg) || - (cachep->memcg_params->memcg == memcg); -} - static inline void memcg_bind_pages(struct kmem_cache *s, int order) { if (!is_root_cache(s)) @@ -204,12 +197,6 @@ static inline bool is_root_cache(struct kmem_cache *s) return true; } -static inline bool cache_match_memcg(struct kmem_cache *cachep, - struct mem_cgroup *memcg) -{ - return true; -} - static inline void memcg_bind_pages(struct kmem_cache *s, int order) { } -- cgit