linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:28:11 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	devel@...nvz.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation
 to the right cache

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> >> 1) Do like the events mechanism and allocate this in a separate
> >> structure. Add a pointer chase in the access, and I don't think it helps
> >> much because it gets allocated anyway. But we could at least
> >> defer it to the time when we limit the cache.
> >
> > Start at some reasonable size and then double it as usage grows?  How
> > many kmem_caches do we typically end up using?
> >
>
> So my Fedora box here, recently booted on a Fedora kernel, will have 111
> caches. How would 150 sound to you?

Some drivers/subsystems can dynamically create slabs as needed for new
devices or instances of metadata. You cannot use a fixed size
array and cannot establish an upper boundary for the number of slabs on
the system.


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