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Message-ID: <505C33D3.5000202@parallels.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:30:59 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	<devel@...nvz.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.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>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/16] sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page
 in kfree

On 09/21/2012 01:33 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com> wrote:
>>>> index f2d760c..18de3f6 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/slab.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/slab.c
>>>> @@ -3938,9 +3938,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
>>>>   * Free an object which was previously allocated from this
>>>>   * cache.
>>>>   */
>>>> -void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
>>>> +void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *objp)
>>>>  {
>>>>      unsigned long flags;
>>>> +    struct kmem_cache *cachep = virt_to_cache(objp);
>>>> +
>>>> +    VM_BUG_ON(!slab_equal_or_parent(cachep, s));
>>>
>>> This is an extremely hot path of the kernel and you are adding significant
>>> processing. Check how the benchmarks are influenced by this change.
>>> virt_to_cache can be a bit expensive.
>>
>> Would it be enough for you to have a separate code path for
>> !CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM?
>>
>> I don't really see another way to do it, aside from deriving the cache
>> from the object in our case. I am open to suggestions if you do.
> 
> We should assume that most distributions enable CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM,
> right? Therfore, any performance impact should be dependent on whether
> or not kmem memcg is *enabled* at runtime or not.
> 
> Can we use the "static key" thingy introduced by tracing folks for this?
> 
Yes.

I am already using static keys extensively in this patchset, and that is
how I intend to handle this particular case.


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