Re: [PATCH mm v2 3/9] memcg: enable accounting for kernfs iattrs

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On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 07:37:59PM +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, can grow over 4Kb
> 1       32      (simple_xattr_set+0x59)
> 1       8       (__kernfs_new_node+0x30)
> 
> '+' -- to be accounted
> 
> This patch enables accounting for kernfs_iattrs_cache slab cache
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>




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