From 81ae6d03952c1bfb96e1a716809bd65e7cd14360 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:10:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/slub.c: replace kick_all_cpus_sync() with synchronize_sched() in kmem_cache_shrink() When we call __kmem_cache_shrink on memory cgroup removal, we need to synchronize kmem_cache->cpu_partial update with put_cpu_partial that might be running on other cpus. Currently, we achieve that by using kick_all_cpus_sync, which works as a system wide memory barrier. Though fast it is, this method has a flaw - it issues a lot of IPIs, which might hurt high performance or real-time workloads. To fix this, let's replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched. Although the latter one may take much longer to finish, it shouldn't be a problem in this particular case, because memory cgroups are destroyed asynchronously from a workqueue so that no user visible effects should be introduced. OTOH, it will save us from excessive IPIs when someone removes a cgroup. Anyway, even if using synchronize_sched turns out to take too long, we can always introduce a kind of __kmem_cache_shrink batching so that this method would only be called once per one cgroup destruction (not per each per memcg kmem cache as it is now). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 4dbb109eb8cd..ba81cf672f08 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -3697,7 +3697,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s, bool deactivate) * s->cpu_partial is checked locklessly (see put_cpu_partial), * so we have to make sure the change is visible. */ - kick_all_cpus_sync(); + synchronize_sched(); } flush_all(s); -- 2.30.2