Re: High kmalloc-32 slab cache consumption with 10k containers

[Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 01:07:27PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > Here is how the calculation turns out to be in my setup:
> > 
> > Number of possible NUMA nodes = 2
> > Number of mounts per container = 7 (Check below to see which are these)
> > Number of list creation requests per mount = 2
> > Number of containers = 10000
> > memcg_nr_cache_ids for 10k containers = 12286
> 
> Luckily, we have "+1" in memcg_nr_cache_ids formula: size = 2 * (id + 1).
> In case of we only multiplied it, you would have to had memcg_nr_cache_ids=20000.

Not really, it would grow like this for size = 2 * id

id 0 size 4
id 4 size 8
id 8 size 16
id 16 size 32
id 32 size 64
id 64 size 128
id 128 size 256
id 256 size 512
id 512 size 1024
id 1024 size 2048
id 2048 size 4096
id 4096 size 8192
id 8192 size 16384

Currently (size = 2 * (id + 1)), it grows like this:

id 0 size 4
id 4 size 10
id 10 size 22
id 22 size 46
id 46 size 94
id 94 size 190
id 190 size 382
id 382 size 766
id 766 size 1534
id 1534 size 3070
id 3070 size 6142
id 6142 size 12286

> 
> Maybe, we need change that formula to increase memcg_nr_cache_ids more accurate
> for further growths of containers number. Say,
> 
> size = id < 2000 ? 2 * (id + 1) : id + 2000

For the above, it would only be marginally better like this:

id 0 size 4
id 4 size 10
id 10 size 22
id 22 size 46
id 46 size 94
id 94 size 190
id 190 size 382
id 382 size 766
id 766 size 1534
id 1534 size 3070
id 3070 size 5070
id 5070 size 7070
id 7070 size 9070
id 9070 size 11070

All the above numbers are for 10k memcgs.

Regards,
Bharata.