Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] mm: kmem: add direct objcg pointer to task_struct

From: Michal Koutný
Date: Thu Dec 22 2022 - 08:50:54 EST


On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:27:45AM -0800, Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To charge a freshly allocated kernel object to a memory cgroup, the
> kernel needs to obtain an objcg pointer. Currently it does it
> indirectly by obtaining the memcg pointer first and then calling to
> __get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg().

Jinx [1].

You report additional 7% improvement with this patch (focused on
allocations only). I didn't see impressive numbers (different benchmark
in [1]), so it looked as a microoptimization without big benefit to me.

My 0.02€ to RFC,
Michal


[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216038#c5

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