On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:38:11AM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Waiman Long wrote: > > > Currently, a value of '1" is written to /sys/kernel/slab/<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. > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> > > > # 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: > > > > # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo > > Slab: 1356288 kB > > SReclaimable: 263296 kB > > SUnreclaim: 1092992 kB > > Well another indicator that it may not be a good decision to replicate the > whole set of slabs for each memcg. Migrate the memcg ownership into the > objects may allow the use of the same slab cache. In particular together > with the slab migration patches this may be a viable way to reduce memory > consumption. >
Btw I'm working on an alternative solution. It's way too early to present anything, but preliminary results are looking promising: slab memory usage is decreased by 10-40% depending on the workload. Thanks!
