On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 07:38:11PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > kernfs nodes are quite small kernel objects, however there are few > scenarios where it consumes significant piece of all allocated memory: > > 1) creating a new netdevice allocates ~50Kb of memory, where ~10Kb > was allocated for 80+ kernfs nodes. > > 2) cgroupv2 mkdir allocates ~60Kb of memory, ~10Kb of them are kernfs > structures. > > 3) Shakeel Butt reports that Google has workloads which create 100s > of subcontainers and they have observed high system overhead > without memcg accounting of kernfs. > > Usually new kernfs node creates few other objects: > > Allocs Alloc Allocation > number size > -------------------------------------------- > 1 + 128 (__kernfs_new_node+0x4d) kernfs node > 1 + 88 (__kernfs_iattrs+0x57) kernfs iattrs > 1 + 96 (simple_xattr_alloc+0x28) simple_xattr > 1 32 (simple_xattr_set+0x59) > 1 8 (__kernfs_new_node+0x30) > > '+' -- to be accounted > > This patch enables accounting for struct simple_xattr. Size of this > structure depends on userspace and can grow over 4Kb. > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
