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Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure [message #48061 is a reply to message #48057]

Wed, 26 September 2012 17:36

Glauber Costa
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On 09/26/2012 08:36 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Michal, Glauber.
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:03:47PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> Haven't we already discussed that a new memcg should inherit kmem_accounted
>> from its parent for use_hierarchy?
>> Say we have
>> root
>> |
>> A (kmem_accounted = 1, use_hierachy = 1)
>> \
>> B (kmem_accounted = 0)
>> \
>> C (kmem_accounted = 1)
>>
>> B find's itself in an awkward situation becuase it doesn't want to
>> account u+k but it ends up doing so becuase C.
>
> Do we really want this level of flexibility? What's wrong with a
> global switch at the root? I'm not even sure we want this to be
> optional at all. The only reason I can think of is that it might
> screw up some configurations in use which are carefully crafted to
> suit userland-only usage but for that isn't what we need a transition
> plan rather than another ultra flexible config option that not many
> really understand the implication of?
>
> In the same vein, do we really need both .kmem_accounted and config
> option? If someone is turning on MEMCG, just include kmem accounting.
>

Yes, we do.

This was discussed multiple times. Our interest is to preserve existing
deployed setup, that were tuned in a world where kmem didn't exist.
Because we also feed kmem to the user counter, this may very well
disrupt their setup.

User memory, unlike kernel memory, may very well be totally in control
of the userspace application, so it is not unreasonable to believe that
extra pages appearing in a new kernel version may break them.

It is actually a much worse compatibility problem than flipping
hierarchy, in comparison

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		[PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Tue, 18 September 2012 14:04
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Fri, 21 September 2012 16:34
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Mon, 24 September 2012 08:09
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Wed, 26 September 2012 14:03
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 14:33
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Wed, 26 September 2012 16:01
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 17:34
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 16:36
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 17:36
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 17:44
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 17:53
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 18:01
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 18:56
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 19:34
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 19:46
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 19:56
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 20:02
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 20:16
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 21:24
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 22:10
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 22:29
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 22:42
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 22:54
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 23:08
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 23:20
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 26 September 2012 23:33
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:15
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:20
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:40
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:40
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:54
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Mel Gorman on Thu, 27 September 2012 14:28
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Thu, 27 September 2012 14:49
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 27 September 2012 14:57
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Thu, 27 September 2012 17:46
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Thu, 27 September 2012 17:56
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 27 September 2012 18:45
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Sun, 30 September 2012 07:57
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Sun, 30 September 2012 08:02
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: James Bottomley on Sun, 30 September 2012 08:56
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Sun, 30 September 2012 10:37
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: James Bottomley on Sun, 30 September 2012 11:25
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Mon, 01 October 2012 00:57
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Mon, 01 October 2012 08:43
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Mon, 01 October 2012 08:46
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 03 October 2012 22:59
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Mon, 01 October 2012 08:36
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:08
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 27 September 2012 12:11
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Thu, 27 September 2012 14:33
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Mel Gorman on Thu, 27 September 2012 14:43
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Thu, 27 September 2012 14:58
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 27 September 2012 18:30
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Sun, 30 September 2012 08:23
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Mon, 01 October 2012 08:45
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 03 October 2012 22:54
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Thu, 04 October 2012 11:55
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Sat, 06 October 2012 02:19
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Thu, 27 September 2012 15:09
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Sun, 30 September 2012 08:47
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Mon, 01 October 2012 09:27
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Tejun Heo on Wed, 03 October 2012 22:43
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Michal Hocko on Fri, 05 October 2012 13:47
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Johannes Weiner on Wed, 26 September 2012 22:11
		Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure By: Glauber Costa on Wed, 26 September 2012 22:45

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