Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:08:32 +0400 | From | Glauber Costa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/11] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag |
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On 06/26/2012 08:25 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> >This flag is used to indicate to the callees that this allocation will be >> >serviced to the kernel. It is not supposed to be passed by the callers >> >of kmem_cache_alloc, but rather by the cache core itself. >> > > Not sure what "serviced to the kernel" means, does this mean that the > memory will not be accounted for to the root memcg? > In this context, it means that is a kernel allocation, not a userspace one (but in process context, of course), *and* it is to be accounted a specific memcg.
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