slab: embed memcg_cache_params to kmem_cache

Currently, kmem_cache stores a pointer to struct memcg_cache_params
instead of embedding it.  The rationale is to save memory when kmem
accounting is disabled.  However, the memcg_cache_params has shrivelled
drastically since it was first introduced:

* Initially:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct list_head list;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
			bool dead;
			atomic_t nr_pages;
			struct work_struct destroy;
		};
	};
};

* Now:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct {
			struct rcu_head rcu_head;
			struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		};
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
		};
	};
};

So the memory saving does not seem to be a clear win anymore.

OTOH, keeping a pointer to memcg_cache_params struct instead of embedding
it results in touching one more cache line on kmem alloc/free hot paths.
Besides, it makes linking kmem caches in a list chained by a field of
struct memcg_cache_params really painful due to a level of indirection,
while I want to make them linked in the following patch.  That said, let
us embed it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 2e3b448..1e03c11 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -473,14 +473,14 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
 #ifndef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
 #define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
 #endif
+
+struct memcg_cache_array {
+	struct rcu_head rcu;
+	struct kmem_cache *entries[0];
+};
+
 /*
  * This is the main placeholder for memcg-related information in kmem caches.
- * struct kmem_cache will hold a pointer to it, so the memory cost while
- * disabled is 1 pointer. The runtime cost while enabled, gets bigger than it
- * would otherwise be if that would be bundled in kmem_cache: we'll need an
- * extra pointer chase. But the trade off clearly lays in favor of not
- * penalizing non-users.
- *
  * Both the root cache and the child caches will have it. For the root cache,
  * this will hold a dynamically allocated array large enough to hold
  * information about the currently limited memcgs in the system. To allow the
@@ -495,10 +495,7 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
 struct memcg_cache_params {
 	bool is_root_cache;
 	union {
-		struct {
-			struct rcu_head rcu_head;
-			struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
-		};
+		struct memcg_cache_array __rcu *memcg_caches;
 		struct {
 			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;