From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <paul@paulmenage.org>,
<lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
<ebiederm@xmission.com>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<gthelen@google.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:11:21 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E764259.5070209@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110918190509.GC28057@shutemov.name>
On 09/18/2011 04:05 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:39:12AM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
>>> No kernel memory accounting for root cgroup, right?
>> Not sure. Maybe kernel memory accounting is useful even for root cgroup.
>> Same as normal memory accounting... what we want to avoid is kernel
>> memory limits. OTOH, if we are not limiting it anyway, accounting it is
>> just useless overhead... Even the statistics can then be gathered
>> through all
>> the proc files that show slab usage, I guess?
>
> It's better to leave root cgroup without accounting. At least for now.
> We can add it later if needed.
Fair.
>>>
>>>> @@ -3979,6 +3999,10 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
>>>> else
>>>> val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, name);
>>>> break;
>>>> + case _KMEM:
>>>> + val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->kmem, name);
>>>> + break;
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Always zero in root cgroup?
>>
>> Yes, if we're not accounting, it should be zero. WARN_ON, maybe?
>
> -ENOSYS?
>
I'd personally prefer WARN_ON. It is good symmetry from userspace PoV to
always be able to get a value out of it. Also, it something goes wrong
and it is not zero for some reason, this will help us find it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-18 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 1:46 [PATCH v2 0/7] per-cgroup tcp buffer pressure settings Glauber Costa
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller Glauber Costa
2011-09-17 17:45 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-18 3:39 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-18 19:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-18 19:11 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2011-09-18 20:39 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-18 20:40 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-18 20:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] socket: initial cgroup code Glauber Costa
2011-09-17 17:52 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-18 3:32 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-18 18:58 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] foundations of per-cgroup memory pressure controlling Glauber Costa
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] per-cgroup tcp buffers control Glauber Costa
2011-09-17 18:11 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-17 18:33 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-18 3:32 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-18 18:58 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-18 19:42 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-28 11:58 ` Andrew Wagin
2011-09-28 12:11 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] per-netns ipv4 sysctl_tcp_mem Glauber Costa
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] tcp buffer limitation: per-cgroup limit Glauber Costa
2011-09-17 12:12 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-15 1:46 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] Display current tcp memory allocation in kmem cgroup Glauber Costa
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