Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] memcg: reduce memory for the lruvec and memcg stats

Roman Gushchin
2024-05-01T23:20:54Z

On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 10:26:13AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> At the moment, the amount of memory allocated for stats related structs
> in the mem_cgroup corresponds to the size of enum node_stat_item.
> However not all fields in enum node_stat_item have corresponding memcg
> stats. So, let's use indirection mechanism similar to the one used for
> memcg vmstats management.
>
> For a given x86_64 config, the size of stats with and without patch is:
>
> structs size in bytes w/o with
>
> struct lruvec_stats 1128 648
> struct lruvec_stats_percpu 752 432
> struct memcg_vmstats 1832 1352
> struct memcg_vmstats_percpu 1280 960
>
> The memory savings is further compounded by the fact that these structs
> are allocated for each cpu and for each node. To be precise, for each
> memcg the memory saved would be:
>
> Memory saved = ((21 * 3 * NR_NODES) + (21 * 2 * NR_NODES * NR_CPUS) +
> (21 * 3) + (21 * 2 * NR_CPUS)) * sizeof(long)
>
> Where 21 is the number of fields eliminated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>