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From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"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>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: memcg/slab: Stop reparented obj_cgroups from charging root
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:30:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201103213010.GA1938922@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201103132221.GI21990@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> I am sorry but I was quite busy at the time this has been discussed.
> Now that I got to this thread finally I am wondering whether this
> resp. other root cgroup exceptions have any follow up.

I'll address a feedback I've got from Johannes and will post and updated
version soon.

> 
> I have seen the issue is fixed in Linus tree by 8de15e920dc8 ("mm:
> memcg: link page counters to root if use_hierarchy is false"). Thanks
> for taking care of that! I do agree that this approach is the most
> reasonable immediate fix.

Thanks!

> 
> Btw. we have been carrying a warning about non hierarchical hierarchies
> for years in our distribution kernels and haven't heard of any actual
> bug reports (except for LTP driven ones). So we might be really close to
> simply drop this functionality completely. This would simplify the code
> and prevent from future surprises.

Just sent an rfc patchset. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-03 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-14 19:07 [RFC PATCH] mm: memcg/slab: Stop reparented obj_cgroups from charging root 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
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 [this message]
2020-10-20 16:55         ` Shakeel Butt
2020-10-20 17:17           ` Roman Gushchin

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