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

[Mike Rapoport]

Hi Roman,

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 04:06:35PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> This is v6 of the slab cgroup controller rework.
> 
> The patchset moves the accounting from the page level to the object
> level. It allows to share slab pages between memory cgroups.
> This leads to a significant win in the slab utilization (up to 45%)
> and the corresponding drop in the total kernel memory footprint.
> The reduced number of unmovable slab pages should also have a positive
> effect on the memory fragmentation.
 
... 
 
> Johannes Weiner (1):
>   mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting
> 
> Roman Gushchin (18):
>   mm: memcg: factor out memcg- and lruvec-level changes out of __mod_lruvec_state()
>   mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items
>   mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes
>   mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index()
>   mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API
>   mm: memcg/slab: allocate obj_cgroups for non-root slab pages
>   mm: memcg/slab: save obj_cgroup for non-root slab objects
>   mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages
>   mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo
>   mm: memcg/slab: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h
>   mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations
>   mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation
>   mm: memcg/slab: remove memcg_kmem_get_cache()
>   mm: memcg/slab: deprecate slab_root_caches
>   mm: memcg/slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo()
>   mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations
>   kselftests: cgroup: add kernel memory accounting tests
>   tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool
 
Sorry for jumping late, but I'm really missing 

   Documentation/vm/cgroup-slab.rst	      | < lots of + >

in this series ;-)

>  drivers/base/node.c                        |   6 +-
>  fs/proc/meminfo.c                          |   4 +-
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h                 |  85 ++-
>  include/linux/mm_types.h                   |   5 +-
>  include/linux/mmzone.h                     |  24 +-
>  include/linux/slab.h                       |   5 -
>  include/linux/slab_def.h                   |   9 +-
>  include/linux/slub_def.h                   |  31 +-
>  include/linux/vmstat.h                     |  14 +-
>  kernel/power/snapshot.c                    |   2 +-
>  mm/memcontrol.c                            | 608 +++++++++++--------
>  mm/oom_kill.c                              |   2 +-
>  mm/page_alloc.c                            |   8 +-
>  mm/slab.c                                  |  70 +--
>  mm/slab.h                                  | 372 +++++-------
>  mm/slab_common.c                           | 643 +--------------------
>  mm/slob.c                                  |  12 +-
>  mm/slub.c                                  | 229 +-------
>  mm/vmscan.c                                |   3 +-
>  mm/vmstat.c                                |  30 +-
>  mm/workingset.c                            |   6 +-
>  tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py             | 226 ++++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/.gitignore  |   1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile    |   2 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_kmem.c | 382 ++++++++++++
>  25 files changed, 1374 insertions(+), 1405 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_kmem.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.4
> 
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.