Lock contention with memory cgroups writing to tmpfs

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

16 threads writing to tmpfs (or ramfs or possibly any fast enough FS where the disk doesn't mask the effect) run vastly slower when inside mem cgroups than outside.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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