Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:11:49 -0400 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Directed kmem charging |
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Hi Shakeel,
this looks generally reasonable to me.
However, patch 1 introduces API that isn't used until patch 2 and 3, which makes reviewing harder since you have to jump back and forth between emails. Please fold patch 1 and introduce API along with the users.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:13:24PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote: > This patchset introduces memcg variant memory allocation functions. The > caller can explicitly pass the memcg to charge for kmem allocations. > Currently the kernel, for __GFP_ACCOUNT memory allocation requests, > extract the memcg of the current task to charge for the kmem allocation. > This patch series introduces kmem allocation functions where the caller > can pass the pointer to the remote memcg. The remote memcg will be > charged for the allocation instead of the memcg of the caller. However > the caller must have a reference to the remote memcg. This patch series > also introduces scope API for targeted memcg charging. So, all the > __GFP_ACCOUNT alloctions within the specified scope will be charged to > the given target memcg.
Can you open with the rationale for the series, i.e. the problem statement (fsnotify and bh memory footprint), *then* follow with the proposed solution?
Thanks!
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