From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vc0-f172.google.com (mail-vc0-f172.google.com [209.85.220.172]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ABB6B0036 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:55:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-vc0-f172.google.com with SMTP id le20so988414vcb.17 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.parallels.com (mx2.parallels.com. [199.115.105.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gr5si4241913pbc.131.2014.09.05.06.55.21 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 17:55:07 +0400 From: Vladimir Davydov Subject: Re: [patch] mm: memcontrol: revert use of root_mem_cgroup res_counter Message-ID: <20140905135507.GE25641@esperanza> References: <1409921037-21405-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1409921037-21405-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dave Hansen , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Tejun Heo , linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:43:57AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Dave Hansen reports a massive scalability regression in an uncontained > page fault benchmark with more than 30 concurrent threads, which he > bisected down to 05b843012335 ("mm: memcontrol: use root_mem_cgroup > res_counter") and pin-pointed on res_counter spinlock contention. > > That change relied on the per-cpu charge caches to mostly swallow the > res_counter costs, but it's apparent that the caches don't scale yet. > > Revert memcg back to bypassing res_counters on the root level in order > to restore performance for uncontained workloads. > > Reported-by: Dave Hansen > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > Tested-by: Dave Hansen > Acked-by: Michal Hocko It's a pity we have to revert this nice cleanup, but seems we can't do anything better right now. FWIW, Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org