tree df99fb2d2c1e2e0aa6873913decf53487e97391e
parent 10096fb1088e5c89b10772a1dfbe9682ecae5cea
author Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 1409921037 -0400
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1409930342 -0700

mm: memcontrol: revert use of root_mem_cgroup res_counter

Dave Hansen reports a massive scalability regression in an uncontained
page fault benchmark with more than 30 concurrent threads, which he
bisected down to 05b843012335 ("mm: memcontrol: use root_mem_cgroup
res_counter") and pin-pointed on res_counter spinlock contention.

That change relied on the per-cpu charge caches to mostly swallow the
res_counter costs, but it's apparent that the caches don't scale yet.

Revert memcg back to bypassing res_counters on the root level in order
to restore performance for uncontained workloads.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>