On 5/5/20 8:07 AM, SeongJae Park wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2020 07:53:39 -0700 Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Why do we have 10,000,000 objects around ? Could this be because of
>> some RCU problem ?
>
> Mainly because of a long RCU grace period, as you guess. I have no idea how
> the grace period became so long in this case.
>
> As my test machine was a virtual machine instance, I guess RCU readers
> preemption[1] like problem might affected this.
>
> [1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-prasad.pdf
>
>>
>> Once Al patches reverted, do you have 10,000,000 sock_alloc around ?
>
> Yes, both the old kernel that prior to Al's patches and the recent kernel
> reverting the Al's patches didn't reproduce the problem.
>
I repeat my question : Do you have 10,000,000 (smaller) objects kept in slab
caches ?
TCP sockets use the (very complex, error prone) SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, but not
the struct socket_wq
object that was allocated in sock_alloc_inode() before Al patches.
These objects should be visible in kmalloc-64 kmem cache.
