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memcgroup: move memory controller allocations to their own slabs
Move the memory controller data structure page_cgroup to its own slab cache. It saves space on the system, allocations are not necessarily pushed to order of 2 and should provide performance benefits. Users who disable the memory controller can also double check that the memory controller is not allocating page_cgroup's. NOTE: Hugh Dickins brought up the issue of whether we want to mark page_cgroup as __GFP_MOVABLE or __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. I don't think there is an easy answer at the moment. page_cgroup's are associated with user pages, they can be reclaimed once the user page has been reclaimed, so it might make sense to mark them as __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. For now, I am leaving the marking to default values that the slab allocator uses. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <[email protected]> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Menage <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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