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author | Namhyung Kim <namhyung@google.com> | 2021-03-11 20:54:12 +0900 |
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committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2021-03-16 21:44:42 +0100 |
commit | bdacfaf26da166dd56c62f23f27a4b3e71f2d89e (patch) | |
tree | ec997eec7ea48b7875e1de7902a72ad80e8d5196 /lib/kunit/test.c | |
parent | 9483409ab5067941860754e78a4a44a60311d276 (diff) |
perf core: Add a kmem_cache for struct perf_event
The kernel can allocate a lot of struct perf_event when profiling. For
example, 256 cpu x 8 events x 20 cgroups = 40K instances of the struct
would be allocated on a large system.
The size of struct perf_event in my setup is 1152 byte. As it's
allocated by kmalloc, the actual allocation size would be rounded up
to 2K.
Then there's 896 byte (~43%) of waste per instance resulting in total
~35MB with 40K instances. We can create a dedicated kmem_cache to
avoid such a big unnecessary memory consumption.
With this change, I can see below (note this machine has 112 cpus).
# grep perf_event /proc/slabinfo
perf_event 224 784 1152 7 2 : tunables 24 12 8 : slabdata 112 112 0
The sixth column is pages-per-slab which is 2, and the fifth column is
obj-per-slab which is 7. Thus actually it can use 1152 x 7 = 8064
byte in the 8K, and wasted memory is (8192 - 8064) / 7 = ~18 byte per
instance.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311115413.444407-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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