linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11] cgroup: use percpu refcnt for cgroup_subsys

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Message-ID: <20130617171651.GE32663@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:16:51 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	lizefan@...wei.com, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, koverstreet@...gle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Alasdair G. Kergon" <agk@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] cgroup: use percpu refcnt for cgroup_subsys_states

Hello, Michal.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Thanks for your results! Yes the boost can be really high. I will try to
> measure some memcg workloads as soon as I have some spare cycles. I do
> not expect a big win but I also do not think this would regress.

With the just committed RCU-sched conversion, the slowdown even on
single CPU configuration w/ CONFIG_PREEMPT should be in the range of a
few percent points in the worst cases and will mostly be in the noise
in any realistic scenarios.  So, yeah, looks pretty good to me. :)

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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