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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] slub: never fail to shrink cache
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:57:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:22:49 +0300 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> wrote:
> > @@ -3375,51 +3376,56 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s)
> > struct kmem_cache_node *n;
> > struct page *page;
> > struct page *t;
> > - int objects = oo_objects(s->max);
> > - struct list_head *slabs_by_inuse =
> > - kmalloc(sizeof(struct list_head) * objects, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + LIST_HEAD(discard);
> > + struct list_head promote[SHRINK_PROMOTE_MAX];
>
> 512 bytes of stack. The call paths leading to __kmem_cache_shrink()
> are many and twisty. How do we know this isn't a problem?

Because currently __kmem_cache_shrink is only called just from a couple
of places, each of which isn't supposed to have a great stack depth
AFAIU, namely:

- slab_mem_going_offline_callback - MEM_GOING_OFFLINE handler
- shrink_store - invoked upon write to /sys/kernel/slab/cache/shrink
- acpi_os_purge_cache - only called on acpi init
- memcg_deactivate_kmem_caches - called from cgroup_destroy_wq

> The logic behind choosing "32" sounds rather rubbery. What goes wrong
> if we use, say, "4"?

We could, but kmem_cache_shrink would cope with fragmentation less
efficiently.

Come to think of it, do we really need to optimize slab placement in
kmem_cache_shrink? None of its users except shrink_store expects it -
they just want to purge the cache before destruction, that's it. May be,
we'd better move slab placement optimization to a separate SLUB's
private function that would be called only by shrink_store, where we can
put up with kmalloc failures? Christoph, what do you think?

Thanks,
Vladimir


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