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[PATCH 4/6] memcg: group the cold fields of struct mem_cgroup

From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Date: 2026-09-05 03:05:47
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: control group - memory resource controller (memcg), memory management, the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds

These fields are only touched by the cgroup control paths:

  memory_peaks, swap_peaks, peaks_lock   memory.peak open/read/release
  events_file, events_local_file,
  swap_events_file                       cgroup_file_notify()
  cgwb_list, cgwb_domain, cgwb_frn       writeback setup and the
                                         foreign dirty slow path
  mm_list                                MGLRU mm list

They sit in the middle of the struct today. The three cgroup_file
members alone are 192 bytes of notify state next to the vmstats
pointer. Put them in one cache line group.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
---
 include/linux/memcontrol.h | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 mm/memcontrol.c            | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 32b77ec5ba98..635929a1f13b 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -228,11 +228,37 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 
 	__cacheline_group_end_aligned(memcg_write_hot);
 
+	/*
+	 * Off the charge and fault paths.  Not write free: cgwb_domain is
+	 * written on every writeout completion and mm_list on fork, exit and
+	 * MGLRU aging.  They are grouped here so those writes cannot land on
+	 * a line that the fast paths read.
+	 */
+	__cacheline_group_begin_aligned(memcg_cold);
 	/* registered local peak watchers */
 	struct list_head memory_peaks;
 	struct list_head swap_peaks;
 	spinlock_t	 peaks_lock;
 
+	/* memory.events and memory.events.local */
+	struct cgroup_file events_file;
+	struct cgroup_file events_local_file;
+
+	/* handle for "memory.swap.events" */
+	struct cgroup_file swap_events_file;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
+	struct list_head cgwb_list;
+	struct wb_domain cgwb_domain;
+	struct memcg_cgwb_frn cgwb_frn[MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT];
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU
+	/* per-memcg mm_struct list */
+	struct lru_gen_mm_list mm_list;
+#endif
+	__cacheline_group_end_aligned(memcg_cold);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP
 	unsigned long zswap_max;
 
@@ -248,37 +274,18 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	 */
 	bool oom_group;
 
-	/* memory.events and memory.events.local */
-	struct cgroup_file events_file;
-	struct cgroup_file events_local_file;
-
-	/* handle for "memory.swap.events" */
-	struct cgroup_file swap_events_file;
-
 	/* memory.stat */
 	struct memcg_vmstats	*vmstats;
 
 	int kmemcg_id;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
-	struct list_head cgwb_list;
-#endif
-
 	/* Keep the hot per-CPU stats pointer away from memory event counters. */
 	struct memcg_vmstats_percpu __percpu *vmstats_percpu
 		____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
-	struct wb_domain cgwb_domain;
-	struct memcg_cgwb_frn cgwb_frn[MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT];
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU
-	/* per-memcg mm_struct list */
-	struct lru_gen_mm_list mm_list;
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
+	/* v1 only. Not grouped: v1 is legacy, sorting it is not worth it. */
+
 	/* Legacy consumer-oriented counters */
 	struct page_counter kmem;		/* v1 only */
 	struct page_counter tcpmem;		/* v1 only */
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 2e209dedeb4f..b2cc82c936ed 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5754,6 +5754,31 @@ static void __init memcg_struct_check(void)
 				      high_irq_work);
 	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_write_hot,
 				      high_work);
+
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      memory_peaks);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      swap_peaks);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      peaks_lock);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      events_file);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      events_local_file);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      swap_events_file);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      cgwb_list);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      cgwb_domain);
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      cgwb_frn);
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU
+	CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_MEMBER(struct mem_cgroup, memcg_cold,
+				      mm_list);
+#endif
 }
 
 int __init mem_cgroup_init(void)
-- 
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