From 04f768a39d55967246c002aa66b407b3bfdd8269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:33:46 -0700 Subject: mm, slab: extend slab/shrink to shrink all memcg caches Currently, a value of '1" is written to /sys/kernel/slab//shrink file to shrink the slab by flushing out all the per-cpu slabs and free slabs in partial lists. This can be useful to squeeze out a bit more memory under extreme condition as well as making the active object counts in /proc/slabinfo more accurate. This usually applies only to the root caches, as the SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON option is usually not enabled and "slub_memcg_sysfs=1" not set. Even if memcg sysfs is turned on, it is too cumbersome and impractical to manage all those per-memcg sysfs files in a real production system. So there is no practical way to shrink memcg caches. Fix this by enabling a proper write to the shrink sysfs file of the root cache to scan all the available memcg caches and shrink them as well. For a non-root memcg cache (when SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON or slub_memcg_sysfs is on), only that cache will be shrunk when written. On a 2-socket 64-core 256-thread arm64 system with 64k page after a parallel kernel build, the the amount of memory occupied by slabs before shrinking slabs were: # grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo task_struct 53137 53192 4288 61 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 872 872 0 # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo Slab: 3936832 kB SReclaimable: 399104 kB SUnreclaim: 3537728 kB After shrinking slabs (by echoing "1" to all shrink files): # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo Slab: 1356288 kB SReclaimable: 263296 kB SUnreclaim: 1092992 kB # grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo task_struct 2764 6832 4288 61 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 112 112 0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190723151445.7385-1-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'mm/slab.h') diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h index 9057b8056b07..5bf615cb3f99 100644 --- a/mm/slab.h +++ b/mm/slab.h @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *); void __kmemcg_cache_deactivate(struct kmem_cache *s); void __kmemcg_cache_deactivate_after_rcu(struct kmem_cache *s); void slab_kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *); +void kmem_cache_shrink_all(struct kmem_cache *s); struct seq_file; struct file; -- cgit v1.2.3