linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:05:39 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:41 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 06:46:56PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:07 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
> > >
[...]
> >
> > Have you performed any [perf] testing on SLAB with this patchset?
>
> The accounting part is the same for SLAB and SLUB, so there should be no
> significant difference. I've checked that it compiles, boots and passes
> kselftests. And that memory savings are there.
>

What about performance? Also you mentioned that sharing kmem-cache
between accounted and non-accounted can have additional overhead. Any
difference between SLAB and SLUB for such a case?