From: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
To: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/shrinker: allocate shrinker_info_unit from a dedicated kmem_cache
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:32:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <285B262E-95AF-4BBD-923C-922DDDF0E70C@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019-vstor-144715-shrinker_info_unit-kmem_cache-v3-1-0fb061e09bf4@virtuozzo.com>
> On Oct 20, 2026, at 00:11, Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>
> shrinker_info_unit holds BITS_PER_LONG atomic_long_t of deferred work
> plus a one-word bitmap, 520 bytes on 64-bit. kzalloc_node() takes it
> from kmalloc-1k, so almost half of every unit is padding.
>
> Allocate the units from a cache of their own, sized to the unit. The
> cache is not cache-line aligned: the counters of a unit already share
> cache lines between shrinkers, and aligning the unit would only keep
> neighbouring units off each other's boundary line, at the cost of part
> of the saving.
>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-20 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 16:11 [PATCH v3] mm/shrinker: allocate shrinker_info_unit from a dedicated kmem_cache Konstantin Khorenko
2026-10-19 17:58 ` Harry Yoo
2026-10-20 2:14 ` Qi Zheng
2026-10-20 2:32 ` Muchun Song [this message]
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