On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:43:57AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Dave Hansen reports a massive scalability regression in an uncontained
> page fault benchmark with more than 30 concurrent threads, which he
> bisected down to 05b843012335 ("mm: memcontrol: use root_mem_cgroup
> res_counter") and pin-pointed on res_counter spinlock contention.
>
> That change relied on the per-cpu charge caches to mostly swallow the
> res_counter costs, but it's apparent that the caches don't scale yet.
>
> Revert memcg back to bypassing res_counters on the root level in order
> to restore performance for uncontained workloads.
>
> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
It's a pity we have to revert this nice cleanup, but seems we can't do
anything better right now. FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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