Re: [PATCH -mm 1/5] quick lookup memcg by ID

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-08-03 12:21:58]:

> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:52:16 +0530
> Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-08-02 19:13:04]:
> > 
> > > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > > 
> > > Now, memory cgroup has an ID per cgroup and make use of it at
> > >  - hierarchy walk,
> > >  - swap recording.
> > > 
> > > This patch is for making more use of it. The final purpose is
> > > to replace page_cgroup->mem_cgroup's pointer to an unsigned short.
> > > 
> > > This patch caches a pointer of memcg in an array. By this, we
> > > don't have to call css_lookup() which requires radix-hash walk.
> > > This saves some amount of memory footprint at lookup memcg via id.
> > >
> > 
> > It is a memory versus speed tradeoff, but if the number of created
> > cgroups is low, it might not be all that slow, besides we do that for
> > swap_cgroup anyway - no?
> >  
> 
> In following patch, pc->page_cgroup is changed from pointer to ID.
> Then, this lookup happens in lru_add/del, for example.
> And, by this, we can place all lookup related things to __read_mostly.
> With css_lookup(), we can't do it and have to be afraid of cache
> behavior.
>

OK, fair enough
 
> I hear there are a users who create 2000+ cgroups and considering
> about "low number" user here is not important.
> This patch is a help for getting _stable_ performance even when there are
> many cgroups.
>

I've heard of one such user on the libcgroup mailing list. 

-- 
	Three Cheers,
	Balbir

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