Re: [PATCH v3 00/35] Memory allocation profiling

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Performance overhead:
To evaluate performance we implemented an in-kernel test executing
multiple get_free_page/free_page and kmalloc/kfree calls with allocation
sizes growing from 8 to 240 bytes with CPU frequency set to max and CPU
affinity set to a specific CPU to minimize the noise. Below are results
from running the test on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with 6.8.0-rc1 kernel on
56 core Intel Xeon:

                        kmalloc                 pgalloc
(1 baseline)            6.764s                  16.902s
(2 default disabled)    6.793s (+0.43%)         17.007s (+0.62%)
(3 default enabled)     7.197s (+6.40%)         23.666s (+40.02%)
(4 runtime enabled)     7.405s (+9.48%)         23.901s (+41.41%)
(5 memcg)               13.388s (+97.94%)       48.460s (+186.71%)

(6 default disabled+memcg)    13.332s (+97.10%)         48.105s (+184.61%)
(7 default enabled+memcg)     13.446s (+98.78%)       54.963s (+225.18%)

I think these numbers are very interesting for folks that already use
memcg. Specifically, the difference between 6 & 7, which seems to be
~0.85% and ~14.25%. IIUC, this means that the extra overhead is
relatively much lower if someone is already using memcgs.

(6) shows a bit better performance than (5) but it's probably noise. I
would expect them to be roughly the same. Hope this helps.

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