Re: [PATCH v6 00/29] kmem controller for memcg.

Greg Thelen
2012-11-03T03:37:20Z

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 04:04 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:07:16 +0400
>> Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This work introduces the kernel memory controller for memcg. Unlike previous
>>> submissions, this includes the whole controller, comprised of slab and stack
>>> memory.
>>
>> I'm in the middle of (re)reading all this. Meanwhile I'll push it all
>> out to http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/ for the crazier testers.
>>
>> One thing:
>>
>>> Numbers can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/13/239
>>
>> You claim in the above that the fork worload is 'slab intensive". Or
>> at least, you seem to - it's a bit fuzzy.
>>
>> But how slab intensive is it, really?
>>
>> What is extremely slab intensive is networking. The networking guys
>> are very sensitive to slab performance. If this hasn't already been
>> done, could you please determine what impact this has upon networking?
>> I expect Eric Dumazet, Dave Miller and Tom Herbert could suggest
>> testing approaches.
>>
>
> I can test it, but unfortunately I am unlikely to get to prepare a good
> environment before Barcelona.
>
> I know, however, that Greg Thelen was testing netperf in his setup.
> Greg, do you have any publishable numbers you could share?

I should have some netperf numbers next week. Sorry I've been distracted by
other projects recently.