Lock contention with memory cgroups writing to tmpfs
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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