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Shakeel Butt authored
Patch series "memcg: optimize charge codepath", v2. Recently Linux networking stack has moved from a very old per socket pre-charge caching to per-cpu caching to avoid pre-charge fragmentation and unwarranted OOMs. One impact of this change is that for network traffic workloads, memcg charging codepath can become a bottleneck. The kernel test robot has also reported this regression[1]. This patch series tries to improve the memcg charging for such workloads. This patch series implement three optimizations: (A) Reduce atomic ops in page counter update path. (B) Change layout of struct page_counter to eliminate false sharing between usage and high. (C) Increase the memcg charge batch to 64. To evaluate the impact of these optimizations, on a 72 CPUs machine, we ran the following workload in root memcg and then compared with scenario where the workload is run in a three level of cgroup hierarchy with top level having min and low setup appropr...
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