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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