On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:38:21AM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > Since a dead memcg cache is destroyed only after the last slab allocated > to it is freed, we must disable caching of empty slabs for such caches, > otherwise they will be hanging around forever. > > This patch makes SLUB discard dead memcg caches' slabs as soon as they > become empty. To achieve that, it disables per cpu partial lists for > dead caches (see put_cpu_partial) and forbids keeping empty slabs on per > node partial lists by setting cache's min_partial to 0 on > kmem_cache_shrink, which is always called on memcg offline (see > memcg_unregister_all_caches). > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Thanks-to: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> > --- > mm/slub.c | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c > index 52565a9426ef..0d2d1978e62c 100644 > --- a/mm/slub.c > +++ b/mm/slub.c > @@ -2064,6 +2064,14 @@ static void put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain) > > } while (this_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, oldpage, page) > != oldpage); > + > + if (memcg_cache_dead(s)) { > + unsigned long flags; > + > + local_irq_save(flags); > + unfreeze_partials(s, this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab)); > + local_irq_restore(flags); > + } > #endif > } > > @@ -3409,6 +3417,9 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s) > kmalloc(sizeof(struct list_head) * objects, GFP_KERNEL); > unsigned long flags; > > + if (memcg_cache_dead(s)) > + s->min_partial = 0; > + > if (!slabs_by_inuse) { > /* > * Do not fail shrinking empty slabs if allocation of the I think that you should move down n->nr_partial test after holding the lock in __kmem_cache_shrink(). Access to n->nr_partial without node lock is racy and you can see wrong value. It results in skipping to free empty slab so your destroying logic could fail. Thanks. -- 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>