2020-08-11 15:07:42

by Johannes Weiner

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] mm: memcg/percpu: per-memcg percpu memory statistics

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:45:13AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Percpu memory can represent a noticeable chunk of the total memory
> consumption, especially on big machines with many CPUs. Let's track
> percpu memory usage for each memcg and display it in memory.stat.
>
> A percpu allocation is usually scattered over multiple pages (and nodes),
> and can be significantly smaller than a page. So let's add a byte-sized
> counter on the memcg level: MEMCG_PERCPU_B. Byte-sized vmstat infra
> created for slabs can be perfectly reused for percpu case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>