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    memcgroup: move memory controller allocations to their own slabs · b6ac57d5
    Balbir Singh authored
    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: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
    Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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