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memcgroup: move memory controller allocations to their own slabs
authorBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:19 +0000 (01:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:10 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
commitb6ac57d50a375aa2f267e1b2b56c46564a936d00
tree51aca62f4b9961f2105672b3429723ca73d78386
parentfaebe9fdf35058bb8421e4c09f6f70994eaf8db2
memcgroup: move memory controller allocations to their own slabs

Move the memory controller data structure page_cgroup to its own slab cache.
It saves space on the system, allocations are not necessarily pushed to order
of 2 and should provide performance benefits.  Users who disable the memory
controller can also double check that the memory controller is not allocating
page_cgroup's.

NOTE: Hugh Dickins brought up the issue of whether we want to mark page_cgroup
as __GFP_MOVABLE or __GFP_RECLAIMABLE.  I don't think there is an easy answer
at the moment.  page_cgroup's are associated with user pages, they can be
reclaimed once the user page has been reclaimed, so it might make sense to
mark them as __GFP_RECLAIMABLE.  For now, I am leaving the marking to default
values that the slab allocator uses.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c