From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
To: <js1304@gmail.com>, "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "'Christoph Lameter'" <cl@linux.com>,
        "'Pekka Enberg'" <penberg@kernel.org>,
        "'David Rientjes'" <rientjes@google.com>,
        "'Johannes Weiner'" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        "'Vladimir Davydov'" <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "'Joonsoo Kim'" <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
References: s238betearAHps239b0z1X
In-Reply-To: s238betearAHps239b0z1X
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mm/slab: fix kmemcg cache creation delayed issue
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 09:02:00 -0700
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It was my (limited) understanding that the subsequent 2 patch set
superseded this patch. Indeed, the 2 patch set seems to solve
both the SLAB and SLUB bug reports.

References:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9361853
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9359271
 
On 2016.10.05 23:21 Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
> There is a bug report that SLAB makes extreme load average due to
> over 2000 kworker thread.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981
>
> This issue is caused by kmemcg feature that try to create new set of
> kmem_caches for each memcg. Recently, kmem_cache creation is slowed by
> synchronize_sched() and futher kmem_cache creation is also delayed
> since kmem_cache creation is synchronized by a global slab_mutex lock.
> So, the number of kworker that try to create kmem_cache increases quitely.
> synchronize_sched() is for lockless access to node's shared array but
> it's not needed when a new kmem_cache is created. So, this patch
> rules out that case.
>
> Fixes: 801faf0db894 ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
> Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> ---
> mm/slab.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 6508b4d..3c83c29 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ static int setup_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> 	 * guaranteed to be valid until irq is re-enabled, because it will be
> 	 * freed after synchronize_sched().
> 	 */
> -	if (force_change)
> +	if (old_shared && force_change)
> 		synchronize_sched();
> 
> fail:
> -- 
> 1.9.1