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/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/slub.c') diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 8834563cdb4b..66808d3e97d2 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5298,7 +5298,7 @@ static ssize_t shrink_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf, size_t length) { if (buf[0] == '1') - kmem_cache_shrink(s); + kmem_cache_shrink_all(s); else return -EINVAL; return length; -- cgit v1.2.3