From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yk0-f169.google.com (mail-yk0-f169.google.com [209.85.160.169]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2166B0257 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:38:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by ykdr82 with SMTP id r82so8902858ykd.3 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-yk0-x22c.google.com (mail-yk0-x22c.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22c]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w66si2498738ywe.143.2015.11.10.10.38.11 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by ykba77 with SMTP id a77so8926200ykb.2 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:38:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:38:08 -0500 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] slab: add SLAB_ACCOUNT flag Message-ID: <20151110183808.GB13740@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <1ce23e932ea53f47a3376de90b21a9db8293bd6c.1447172835.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1ce23e932ea53f47a3376de90b21a9db8293bd6c.1447172835.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Greg Thelen , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:34:05PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > Currently, if we want to account all objects of a particular kmem cache, > we have to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT to each kmem_cache_alloc call, which is > inconvenient. This patch introduces SLAB_ACCOUNT flag which if passed to > kmem_cache_create will force accounting for every allocation from this > cache even if __GFP_ACCOUNT is not passed. > > This patch does not make any of the existing caches use this flag - it > will be done later in the series. > > Note, a cache with SLAB_ACCOUNT cannot be merged with a cache w/o > SLAB_ACCOUNT, i.e. using this flag will probably reduce the number of > merged slabs even if kmem accounting is not used (only compiled in). Am I correct in thinking that we should eventually be able to removed __GFP_ACCOUNT and that only caches explicitly marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT would need to be handled by kmemcg? Thanks a lot for doing this! -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org