Re: [PATCH v7 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:40:35AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Instead of having two sets of kmem_caches: one for system-wide and
> non-accounted allocations and the second one shared by all accounted
> allocations, we can use just one.
> 
> The idea is simple: space for obj_cgroup metadata can be allocated on
> demand and filled only for accounted allocations.
> 
> It allows to remove a bunch of code which is required to handle kmem_cache
> clones for accounted allocations.  There is no more need to create them,
> accumulate statistics, propagate attributes, etc.  It's a quite
> significant simplification.
> 
> Also, because the total number of slab_caches is reduced almost twice (not
> all kmem_caches have a memcg clone), some additional memory savings are
> expected.  On my devvm it additionally saves about 3.5% of slab memory.
> 
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>

This patch results in:

{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:140: Warning: macro instruction expanded into multiple instructions
mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_alloc.constprop':
mm/slub.c:2897:30: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline 'slab_alloc.constprop': recursive inlining
 static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,

and many similar messages when trying to build mips:64r6el_defconfig
or mips:defconfig. Bisect log attached.

Guenter

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