From ce00a967377baadf2481521e131771adc7652856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:43:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Tested-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed