[PATCH 11/11] cgroup: use percpu refcnt for cgroup_subsys_states

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 14-06-13 22:35:22, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 03:31:25PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > I'll play with it a bit more on an actual machine and post more
> > results.  Test program attached.
> 
> So, here are the results from the same test on a dual-socket 2-way
> NUMA opteron 8 core machine.
> 
> Running on one CPU.
> 
>   copy size	atomic		percpu		diff in pct
>   0		535964443	616756827	+15.07%
>   32		399988186	378678713	 -5.33%
>   64		389067476	355073979	 -8.74%
>   128		342192631	315615300	 -7.77%
>   256		281208005	260598931	 -7.33%
>   512		188070912	193225269	 +2.74%
> 
> Running on all eight cores.
> 
>   copy size	atomic		percpu		diff in pct
>   0		121324328	4889425511	+3,930.05%
>   32		 96170193	2999613380	+3,019.07%
>   64		 98139061	2813894184	+2,767.25%
>   128		112610025	2503229487	+2,122.92%
>   256		 96828114	2069865752	+2,037.67%
>   512		 95858297	1537726109	+1,504.17%
> 
> Ration of all cores / single core.
> 
>   copy size	atomic		percpu
>   0		0.23		7.93
>   32		0.24		7.92
>   64		0.25		7.92
>   128		0.33		7.93
>   256		0.34		7.94
>   512		0.51		7.96
> 
> Note exactly 8 - the cores do share quite a bit of resources after all
> - but pretty close.
> 

Thanks for your results! Yes the boost can be really high. I will try to
measure some memcg workloads as soon as I have some spare cycles. I do
not expect a big win but I also do not think this would regress.

Thanks.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs