Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memcontrol: optimize per-lruvec stats counter memory usage

[Roman Gushchin <guro-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 06:21:18PM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:51:32PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > The vmstat threshold is 32 (MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH), so the type of s32
> > of lruvec_stat_cpu is enough. And introduce struct per_cpu_lruvec_stat
> > to optimize memory usage.
> > 
> > The size of struct lruvec_stat is 304 bytes on 64 bits system. As it
> > is a per-cpu structure. So with this patch, we can save 304 / 2 * ncpu
> > bytes per-memcg per-node where ncpu is the number of the possible CPU.
> > If there are c memory cgroup (include dying cgroup) and n NUMA node in
> > the system. Finally, we can save (152 * ncpu * c * n) bytes.
> 
> Honestly, I'm not convinced.
> Say, ncpu = 32, n = 2, c = 500. We're saving <5Mb of memory.
> If the machine has 128Gb of RAM, it's .000000003%.

My bad, it's actually
(32*2*500*152)/(128*1024*1024*1024) = .0035%

but it's still in the noise.


> 
> Using longs (s64) allows not to think too much about overflows
> and can also be slightly faster on 64-bit machines.
> 
> Thanks!