[PATCH 1/4] memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 tcp accounting

Shakeel Butt
2024-08-14T20:28:48Z

Memcg v1 provides opt-in TCP memory accounting feature. However it is
mostly unused due to its performance impact on the network traffic. In
v2, the TCP memory is accounted in the regular memory usage and is
transparent to the users but they can observe the TCP memory usage
through memcg stats.

Let's initiate the deprecation process of memcg v1's tcp accounting
functionality and add warnings to gather if there are any users and if
there are, collect how they are using it and plan to provide them better
alternative in v2.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 8 ++++++++
mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index 9cde26d33843..fb6d3e2a6395 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -105,10 +105,18 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.kmem.max_usage_in_bytes show max kernel memory usage recorded

memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes set/show hard limit for tcp buf memory
+ This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+ used.
memory.kmem.tcp.usage_in_bytes show current tcp buf memory allocation
+ This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+ used.
memory.kmem.tcp.failcnt show the number of tcp buf memory usage
+ This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+ used.
hits limits
memory.kmem.tcp.max_usage_in_bytes show max tcp buf memory usage recorded
+ This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+ used.
==================================== ==========================================

1. History
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index 9725c731fb21..b8e2ee454eaa 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -2447,6 +2447,9 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
ret = 0;
break;
case _TCP:
+ pr_warn_once("kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes is deprecated and will be removed. "
+ "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you "
+ "depend on this functionality.\n");
ret = memcg_update_tcp_max(memcg, nr_pages);
break;
}
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