From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx201.postini.com [74.125.245.201]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 762276B0044 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:44:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:44:57 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/14] mm: Allocate kernel pages to the right memcg Message-Id: <20121018134457.5e7edd19.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <507FCADF.20109@parallels.com> References: <1350382611-20579-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1350382611-20579-8-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20121017151221.4c420e5a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <507FCADF.20109@parallels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Tejun Heo , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , devel@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Suleiman Souhlal On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:24:47 +0400 Glauber Costa wrote: > On 10/18/2012 02:12 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:16:44 +0400 > > Glauber Costa wrote: > > > >> When a process tries to allocate a page with the __GFP_KMEMCG flag, the > >> page allocator will call the corresponding memcg functions to validate > >> the allocation. Tasks in the root memcg can always proceed. > >> > >> To avoid adding markers to the page - and a kmem flag that would > >> necessarily follow, as much as doing page_cgroup lookups for no reason, > >> whoever is marking its allocations with __GFP_KMEMCG flag is responsible > >> for telling the page allocator that this is such an allocation at > >> free_pages() time. > > > > Well, why? Was that the correct decision? > > > > I don't fully understand your question. Is this the same question you > posed in patch 0, about marking some versus marking all? If so, I > believe I should have answered it there. Yes, it's the same question. The one which has not yet been fully answered ;) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org