From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Richard Palethorpe" <rpalethorpe@suse.com>,
ltp@lists.linux.it, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeelb@google.com>,
"Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: memcg/slab: Stop reparented obj_cgroups from charging root
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:18:22 -0400
Message-ID: <20201020181822.GA397401@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201020170717.GA153102@carbon.DHCP.thefacebook.com>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:07:17AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> If we want these counter to function properly, then we should go into the opposite
> direction and remove the special handling of the root memory cgroup in many places.
I suspect this is also by far the most robust solution from a code and
maintenance POV.
I don't recall the page counter at the root level having been a
concern in recent years, even though it's widely used in production
environments. It's lockless and cache compact. It's also per-cpu
batched, which means it isn't actually part of the memcg hotpath.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-14 19:07 Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-14 20:08 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-16 5:40 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-16 9:47 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-16 10:41 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-16 15:05 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-16 17:26 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-16 14:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-16 17:02 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-16 17:15 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-19 8:45 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-19 9:58 ` [PATCH v3] " Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-19 16:58 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-20 5:52 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-20 13:49 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-20 16:56 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-21 20:32 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-20 17:24 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-22 7:04 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-22 12:28 ` [PATCH v4] " Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-22 16:37 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-22 17:25 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-22 23:59 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-23 0:40 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-23 15:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-23 16:41 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-26 7:32 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-26 23:14 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-19 22:28 ` [RFC PATCH] " Roman Gushchin
2020-10-20 6:04 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-20 12:02 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-20 14:48 ` Richard Palethorpe
2020-10-20 16:27 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-20 17:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-20 18:18 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2020-10-21 19:33 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-23 16:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-11-10 1:27 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-11-10 15:11 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-11-10 19:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-11-20 17:46 ` Michal Koutný
2020-11-03 13:22 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-03 21:30 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-20 16:55 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-20 17:17 ` Roman Gushchin
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