From: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, glommer@parallels.com,
penberg@kernel.org, yinghan@google.com, hughd@google.com,
gthelen@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] memcg: Introduce __GFP_NOACCOUNT.
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:09:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABCjUKBHjLHKUmW6_r0SOyw42WfV0zNO7Kd7FhhRQTT6jZdyeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229150041.62c1feeb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:00 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:58:47 -0800
> Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> This is used to indicate that we don't want an allocation to be accounted
>> to the current cgroup.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
>
> I don't like this.
>
> Please add
>
> ___GFP_ACCOUNT "account this allocation to memcg"
>
> Or make this as slab's flag if this work is for slab allocation.
We would like to account for all the slab allocations that happen in
process context.
Manually marking every single allocation or kmem_cache with a GFP flag
really doesn't seem like the right thing to do..
Can you explain why you don't like this flag?
-- Suleiman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-27 22:58 [PATCH 00/10] memcg: Kernel Memory Accounting Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 01/10] memcg: Kernel memory accounting infrastructure Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 13:10 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 0:37 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 13:11 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 02/10] memcg: Uncharge all kmem when deleting a cgroup Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 19:00 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 0:24 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-29 16:51 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 6:22 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-29 19:00 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 03/10] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-29 6:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 04/10] memcg: Introduce __GFP_NOACCOUNT Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-29 6:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-29 16:53 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 19:09 ` Suleiman Souhlal [this message]
2012-03-01 0:10 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-01 0:24 ` Glauber Costa
2012-03-01 6:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-03 14:22 ` Glauber Costa
2012-03-03 16:38 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-03-03 23:24 ` Glauber Costa
2012-03-04 0:10 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-03-06 10:36 ` Glauber Costa
2012-03-06 16:13 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-03-06 18:31 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 05/10] memcg: Slab accounting Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 13:24 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-28 23:31 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-29 17:00 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 06/10] memcg: Track all the memcg children of a kmem_cache Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 07/10] memcg: Stop res_counter underflows Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 13:31 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-28 23:07 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-29 17:05 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 19:17 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 08/10] memcg: Add CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM_ACCT_ROOT Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 13:34 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-28 23:36 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 23:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-29 17:09 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 19:24 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 09/10] memcg: Per-memcg memory.kmem.slabinfo file Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 22:58 ` [PATCH 10/10] memcg: Document kernel memory accounting Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-27 23:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-02-28 8:49 ` [PATCH 00/10] memcg: Kernel Memory Accounting Pekka Enberg
2012-02-28 22:12 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-28 13:03 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-28 22:47 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2012-02-29 16:47 ` Glauber Costa
2012-02-29 19:28 ` Suleiman Souhlal
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