On 05/29/2012 06:36 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:

On Fri, 25 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

quoted

index dacd1fb..4689034 100644

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c

@@ -467,6 +467,23 @@ struct cg_proto *tcp_proto_cgroup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_proto_cgroup);
  #endif /* CONFIG_INET */

+char *mem_cgroup_cache_name(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct kmem_cache *cachep)
+{
+	char *name;
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	dentry = rcu_dereference(memcg->css.cgroup->dentry);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	BUG_ON(dentry == NULL);
+
+	name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s(%d:%s)",
+	    cachep->name, css_id(&memcg->css), dentry->d_name.name);
+
+	return name;
+}

Function allocates a string that is supposed to be disposed of by the
caller. That needs to be documented and maybe even the name needs to
reflect that.

Okay, I can change it.

quoted

--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c

@@ -4002,6 +4002,38 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_create);

+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_dup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				  struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+	char *name;
+	struct kmem_cache *new;
+
+	name = mem_cgroup_cache_name(memcg, s);
+	if (!name)
+		return NULL;
+
+	new = kmem_cache_create_memcg(memcg, name, s->objsize, s->align,
+				      (s->allocflags&  ~SLAB_PANIC), s->ctor);

Hmmm... A full duplicate of the slab cache? We may have many sparsely
used portions of the per node and per cpu structure as a result.

I've already commented on patch 0, but I will repeat it here. This 
approach leads to more fragmentation, yes, but this is exactly to be 
less intrusive.

With a full copy, all I need to do is:

1) relay the allocation to the right cache.
2) account for a new page when it is needed.

How does the cache work from inside? I don't care.

Accounting pages seems just crazy to me. If new allocators come in the 
future, organizing the pages in a different way, instead of patching it 
here and there, we need to totally rewrite this.

If those allocators happen to depend on a specific placement for 
performance, then we're destroying this as well too.

quoted

+	 * prevent it from being deleted. If kmem_cache_destroy() is
+	 * called for the root cache before we call it for a child cache,
+	 * it will be queued for destruction when we finally drop the
+	 * reference on the child cache.
+	 */
+	if (new) {
+		down_write(&slub_lock);
+		s->refcount++;
+		up_write(&slub_lock);
+	}

Why do you need to increase the refcount? You made a full copy right?

Yes, but I don't want this copy to go away while we have other caches 
around.

So, in the memcg internals, I used a different reference counter, to 
avoid messing with this one. I could use that, and leave the original 
refcnt alone. Would you prefer this?

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