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    SubjectRe: [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking
    On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 02:40:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:46:11 +0530
    > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
    >
    > > This patchset implements a memory controller extension to control
    > > HugeTLB allocations. It is similar to the existing hugetlb quota
    > > support in that, the limit is enforced at mmap(2) time and not at
    > > fault time. HugeTLB's quota mechanism limits the number of huge pages
    > > that can allocated per superblock.
    > >
    > > For shared mappings we track the regions mapped by a task along with the
    > > memcg. We keep the memory controller charged even after the task
    > > that did mmap(2) exits. Uncharge happens during truncate. For Private
    > > mappings we charge and uncharge from the current task cgroup.
    >
    > I haven't begin to get my head around this yet, but I'd like to draw
    > your attention to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/15/548. That fix has
    > been hanging around for a while, but I haven't done anything with it
    > yet because I don't like its additional blurring of the separation
    > between hugetlb core code and hugetlbfs. I want to find time to sit
    > down and see if the fix can be better architected but haven't got
    > around to that yet.

    So.. that version of the fix I specifically rebuilt to address your
    concerns about that blurring - in fact I think it reduces the current
    layer blurring. I haven't had any reply - what problems do see it as
    still having?

    > I expect that your patches will conflict at least mechanically with
    > David's, which is not a big issue. But I wonder whether your patches
    > will copy the same bug into other places, and whether you can think of
    > a tidier way of addressing the bug which David is seeing?

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