Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:25:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/23] kmem controller charge/uncharge infrastructure |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> I think memcg is not necessarily wrong. That is because threads in a process > share an address space, and you will eventually need to map a page to deliver > it to userspace. The mm struct points you to the owner of that. > > But that is not necessarily true for things that live in the kernel address > space. > > Do you view this differently ? >
Yes, for user memory, I see charging to p->mm->owner as allowing that process to eventually move and be charged to a different memcg and there's no way to do proper accounting if the charge is split amongst different memcgs because of thread membership to a set of memcgs. This is consistent with charges for shared memory being moved when a thread mapping it moves to a new memcg, as well.
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