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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: jingrui <jingrui@huawei.com>
Cc: "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>, Lizefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	"mhocko@kernel.org" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	"vdavydov.dev@gmail.com" <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"cgroups@vger.kernel.org" <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	caihaomin <caihaomin@huawei.com>,
	"Weiwei (N)" <wick.wei@huawei.com>,
	guro@cmpxchg.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: cgroup cost too much memory when transfer small files to tmpfs
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:41:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200721174126.GA271870@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E04DD7753BE0E4ABABF0B664610AD6F2620CAF7@dggeml528-mbx.china.huawei.com>

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:19:52AM +0000, jingrui wrote:
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> ; Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>; Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ---
> PROBLEM: cgroup cost too much memory when transfer small files to tmpfs.
> 
> keywords: cgroup PERCPU/memory cost too much.
> 
> description:
> 
> We send small files from node-A to node-B tmpfs /tmp directory using sftp. On
> node-B the systemd configured with pam on like below.
> 
> cat /etc/pam.d/password-auth | grep systemd
> -session     optional      pam_systemd.so
> 
> So when transfer a file, a systemd session is created, that means a cgroup is
> created, then file saved at /tmp will associated with a cgroup object. After
> file transferred, session and cgroup-dir will be removed, but the file in /tmp
> still associated with the cgroup object. The PERCPU memory in cgroup/css object
> cost a lot(about 0.5MB/per-cgroup-object) on 200/cpus machine.

CC Roman who had a patch series to free all this extended (percpu)
memory upon cgroup deletion:

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1050508/

It looks like it never got merged for some reason.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21 11:19 jingrui
2020-07-21 14:45 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-07-21 17:41 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2020-07-21 18:49   ` Roman Gushchin
2020-07-21 19:12     ` Shakeel Butt
2020-07-21 19:27       ` Roman Gushchin
2020-07-24  7:55 ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-24  9:35   ` 答复: " jingrui
2020-07-24 11:35     ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-27  3:14       ` jingrui
2020-07-27 13:40         ` 答复: " Fangxiuning (Jack, EulerOS)

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