Re: [PATCH 13/14] mm: memcontrol: account socket memory in unified hierarchy memory controller

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 04:59:25PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 12-11-15 18:41:32, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Socket memory can be a significant share of overall memory consumed by
> > common workloads. In order to provide reasonable resource isolation in
> > the unified hierarchy, this type of memory needs to be included in the
> > tracking/accounting of a cgroup under active memory resource control.
> > 
> > Overhead is only incurred when a non-root control group is created AND
> > the memory controller is instructed to track and account the memory
> > footprint of that group. cgroup.memory=nosocket can be specified on
> > the boot commandline to override any runtime configuration and
> > forcibly exclude socket memory from active memory resource control.
> 
> Do you have any numbers about the overhead?

Hm? Performance numbers make sense when you have a specific scenario
and a theory on how to optimize the implementation for it. What load
would you test and what would be the baseline to compare it to?

> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> 
> With a way to disable this feature I am OK with it.
> cgroup.memory=nosocket should be documented (at least in
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index f8aae63..d518340 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -599,6 +599,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			cut the overhead, others just disable the usage. So
 			only cgroup_disable=memory is actually worthy}
 
+	cgroup.memory=	[KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
+			Format: <string>
+			nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
+
 	checkreqprot	[SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
 			Format: { "0" | "1" }
 			See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.

> Other than that
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Thanks!

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