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Historically memcg overhead was high even if memcg was unused.  This has
improved a lot but it still showed up in a profile summary as being a
problem.

/usr/src/linux-4.0-vanilla/mm/memcontrol.c                           6.6441   395842
  mem_cgroup_try_charge                                                        2.950%   175781
  __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event                                                  1.431%    85239
  mem_cgroup_page_lruvec                                                       0.456%    27156
  mem_cgroup_commit_charge                                                     0.392%    23342
  uncharge_list                                                                0.323%    19256
  mem_cgroup_update_lru_size                                                   0.278%    16538
  memcg_check_events                                                           0.216%    12858
  mem_cgroup_charge_statistics.isra.22                 ...