Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Directed kmem charging

Johannes Weiner
2018-06-19T16:09:35Z

Hi Shakeel,

this looks generally reasonable to me.

However, patch 1 introduces API that isn't used until patch 2 and 3,
which makes reviewing harder since you have to jump back and forth
between emails. Please fold patch 1 and introduce API along with the
users.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:13:24PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> This patchset introduces memcg variant memory allocation functions. The
> caller can explicitly pass the memcg to charge for kmem allocations.
> Currently the kernel, for __GFP_ACCOUNT memory allocation requests,
> extract the memcg of the current task to charge for the kmem allocation.
> This patch series introduces kmem allocation functions where the caller
> can pass the pointer to the remote memcg. The remote memcg will be
> charged for the allocation instead of the memcg of the caller. However
> the caller must have a reference to the remote memcg. This patch series
> also introduces scope API for targeted memcg charging. So, all the
> __GFP_ACCOUNT alloctions within the specified scope will be charged to
> the given target memcg.

Can you open with the rationale for the series, i.e. the problem
statement (fsnotify and bh memory footprint), *then* follow with the
proposed solution?

Thanks!