tree 3b6d358120f12d04373ba5fad6b9ff71f505bdfc
parent 460a79e18842caca6fa0c415de4a3ac1e671ac50
author Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> 1647985235 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1647989822 -0700

mm/memcg: revert ("mm/memcg: optimize user context object stock access")

Patch series "mm/memcg: Address PREEMPT_RT problems instead of disabling it", v5.

This series aims to address the memcg related problem on PREEMPT_RT.

I tested them on CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT with the
tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/* tests and I haven't observed any
regressions (other than the lockdep report that is already there).

This patch (of 6):

The optimisation is based on a micro benchmark where local_irq_save() is
more expensive than a preempt_disable().  There is no evidence that it
is visible in a real-world workload and there are CPUs where the
opposite is true (local_irq_save() is cheaper than preempt_disable()).

Based on micro benchmarks, the optimisation makes sense on PREEMPT_NONE
where preempt_disable() is optimized away.  There is no improvement with
PREEMPT_DYNAMIC since the preemption counter is always available.

The optimization makes also the PREEMPT_RT integration more complicated
since most of the assumption are not true on PREEMPT_RT.

Revert the optimisation since it complicates the PREEMPT_RT integration
and the improvement is hardly visible.

[bigeasy@linutronix.de: patch body around Michal's diff]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226204144.1008339-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YgOGkXXCrD%2F1k+p4@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YdX+INO9gQje6d0S@linutronix.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226204144.1008339-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>