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In general it's unknown in advance if a slab page will contain accounted objects or not. In order to avoid memory waste, an obj_cgroup vector is allocated dynamically when a need to account of a new object arises. Such approach is memory efficient, but requires an expensive cmpxchg() to set up the memcg/objcgs pointer, because an allocation can race with a different allocation on another cpu. But in some common cases it's known for sure that a slab page will contain accounted objects: if the page belongs to a slab cache with a SLAB_ACCOUNT flag set. It includes such popular objects like vm_area_struct, anon_vma, task_struct, etc. In such cases we can pre-allocate the objcgs vector and simple assign it to the page without any atomic operations, because at this early stage the page is not visible to anyone else. A very simplistic benchmark (allocating 10000000 64-bytes objects in a row) shows ~15% win. In the real life it seems that most workloads are not very sensitive to the speed of (accounted) slab allocations. [guro@fb.com: open-code set_page_objcgs() and add some comments, by Johannes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113001926.GA2934489@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for mm-slub-call-account_slab_page-after-slab-page-initialization-fix.patch] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110195753.530157-2-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.