On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 03:54:11PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > If there's contention on slab_mutex, queueing the per-cache > destruction work item on the system_wq can unnecessarily create and > tie up a lot of kworkers. > > Rename memcg_kmem_cache_create_wq to memcg_kmem_cache_wq and make it > global and use that workqueue for the destruction work items too. > While at it, convert the workqueue from an unbound workqueue to a > per-cpu one with concurrency limited to 1. It's generally preferable > to use per-cpu workqueues and concurrency limit of 1 is safe enough. > > This is suggested by Joonsoo Kim. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Jay Vana <jsvana@xxxxxx> > Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>