On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 06:21:18PM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:51:32PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote: > > The vmstat threshold is 32 (MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH), so the type of s32 > > of lruvec_stat_cpu is enough. And introduce struct per_cpu_lruvec_stat > > to optimize memory usage. > > > > The size of struct lruvec_stat is 304 bytes on 64 bits system. As it > > is a per-cpu structure. So with this patch, we can save 304 / 2 * ncpu > > bytes per-memcg per-node where ncpu is the number of the possible CPU. > > If there are c memory cgroup (include dying cgroup) and n NUMA node in > > the system. Finally, we can save (152 * ncpu * c * n) bytes. > > Honestly, I'm not convinced. > Say, ncpu = 32, n = 2, c = 500. We're saving <5Mb of memory. > If the machine has 128Gb of RAM, it's .000000003%.
My bad, it's actually (32*2*500*152)/(128*1024*1024*1024) = .0035% but it's still in the noise. > > Using longs (s64) allows not to think too much about overflows > and can also be slightly faster on 64-bit machines. > > Thanks!
