Re: High kmalloc-32 slab cache consumption with 10k containers

[Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:54:43AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 15-04-21 10:53:00, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:28:07AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Another approach may be to identify filesystem types that do not
> > > need memcg awareness and feed that into alloc_super() to set/clear
> > > the SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag. This could be based on fstype - most
> > > virtual filesystems that expose system information do not really
> > > need full memcg awareness because they are generally only visible to
> > > a single memcg instance...
> > 
> > Would something like below be appropriate?
> 
> No. First of all you are defining yet another way to say
> SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE which is messy.

Ok.

> And secondly why would shmem, proc
> and ramfs be any special and they would be ok to opt out? There is no
> single word about that reasoning in your changelog.

Right, I am only checking if the suggestion given by David (see above)
is indeed this. There are a few other things to take care of
which I shall if the overall direction of the patch turns
out to be acceptable.

Regards,
Bharata.