Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:54:20 -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:
> > 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. > > But that's the problem. > > When we are dealing with kernel memory, we are allocating a whole slab page. > It is essentially impossible to track, given a page, which task allocated > which object. >
Right, so you have to make the distinction that slab charges cannot be migrated by memory.move_charge_at_immigrate (and it's not even specified to do anything beyond user pages in Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt), but it would be consistent to charge the same memcg for a process's slab allocations as the process's user allocations.
My response was why we shouldn't be charging user pages to mem_cgroup_from_task(current) rather than mem_cgroup_from_task(current->mm->owner) which is what is currently implemented.
If that can't be changed so that we can still migrate user memory amongst memcgs for memory.move_charge_at_immigrate, then it seems consistent to have all allocations done by a task to be charged to the same memcg. Hence, I suggested current->mm->owner for slab charging as well.
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