From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Yang Shi <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
amir73il@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcg
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 10:31:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171115093131.GA17359@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afa2dc80-16a3-d3d1-5090-9430eaafc841@alibaba-inc.com>
On Wed 15-11-17 01:32:16, Yang Shi wrote:
>
>
> On 11/14/17 1:39 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >On Tue 14-11-17 03:10:22, Yang Shi wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On 11/9/17 5:54 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>>[Sorry for the late reply]
> >>>
> >>>On Tue 31-10-17 11:12:38, Jan Kara wrote:
> >>>>On Tue 31-10-17 00:39:58, Yang Shi wrote:
> >>>[...]
> >>>>>I do agree it is not fair and not neat to account to producer rather than
> >>>>>misbehaving consumer, but current memcg design looks not support such use
> >>>>>case. And, the other question is do we know who is the listener if it
> >>>>>doesn't read the events?
> >>>>
> >>>>So you never know who will read from the notification file descriptor but
> >>>>you can simply account that to the process that created the notification
> >>>>group and that is IMO the right process to account to.
> >>>
> >>>Yes, if the creator is de-facto owner which defines the lifetime of
> >>>those objects then this should be a target of the charge.
> >>>
> >>>>I agree that current SLAB memcg accounting does not allow to account to a
> >>>>different memcg than the one of the running process. However I *think* it
> >>>>should be possible to add such interface. Michal?
> >>>
> >>>We do have memcg_kmem_charge_memcg but that would require some plumbing
> >>>to hook it into the specific allocation path. I suspect it uses kmalloc,
> >>>right?
> >>
> >>Yes.
> >>
> >>I took a look at the implementation and the callsites of
> >>memcg_kmem_charge_memcg(). It looks it is called by:
> >>
> >>* charge kmem to memcg, but it is charged to the allocator's memcg
> >>* allocate new slab page, charge to memcg_params.memcg
> >>
> >>I think this is the plumbing you mentioned, right?
> >
> >Maybe I have misunderstood, but you are using slab allocator. So you
> >would need to force it to use a different charging context than current.
>
> Yes.
>
> >I haven't checked deeply but this doesn't look trivial to me.
>
> I agree. This is also what I explained to Jan and Amir in earlier
> discussion.
And I also agree. But the fact that it is not trivial does not mean that it
should not be done...
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-15 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-27 18:22 [PATCH v2] fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcg Yang Shi
2017-10-28 14:19 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-10-29 2:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-10-30 12:43 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-30 16:39 ` Yang Shi
2017-10-31 10:12 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-31 16:44 ` Yang Shi
2017-11-01 15:15 ` Jan Kara
2017-11-09 13:54 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-13 19:10 ` Yang Shi
2017-11-14 9:39 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-14 17:32 ` Yang Shi
2017-11-15 9:31 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2018-01-19 15:02 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-22 20:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-01-24 10:34 ` Jan Kara
2018-01-24 11:12 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-01-25 1:08 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-25 1:54 ` Al Viro
2018-01-25 2:15 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-25 7:51 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-01-25 20:20 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-25 20:36 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-13 6:30 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-13 21:10 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-02-13 21:54 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-13 22:20 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-02-14 1:59 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-02-14 8:38 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-19 13:50 ` Jan Kara
2018-02-19 19:07 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-20 12:43 ` Jan Kara
2018-02-20 19:20 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-02-20 20:30 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-02-14 9:00 ` Amir Goldstein
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