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Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] kmem accounting basic infrastructure [message #48144 is a reply to message #48143]

Sun, 30 September 2012 10:37

Tejun Heo
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Registered: November 2006

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Hello, James.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:56:28AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> The beancounter approach originally used by OpenVZ does exactly this.
> There are two specific problems, though, firstly you can't count
> references in generic code, so now you have to extend the cgroup
> tentacles into every object, an invasiveness which people didn't really
> like.

Yeah, it will need some hooks. For dentry and inode, I think it would
be pretty well isolated tho. Wasn't it?

> Secondly split accounting causes oddities too, like your total
> kernel memory usage can appear to go down even though you do nothing
> just because someone else added a share. Worse, if someone drops the
> reference, your usage can go up, even though you did nothing, and push
> you over your limit, at which point action gets taken against the
> container. This leads to nasty system unpredictability (The whole point
> of cgroup isolation is supposed to be preventing resource usage in one
> cgroup from affecting that in another).

In a sense, the fluctuating amount is the actual resource burden the
cgroup is putting on the system, so maybe it just needs to be handled
better or maybe we should charge fixed amount per refcnt? I don't
know.

> We discussed this pretty heavily at the Containers Mini Summit in Santa
> Rosa. The emergent consensus was that no-one really likes first use
> accounting, but it does solve all the problems and it has the fewest
> unexpected side effects.

But that's like fitting the problem to the mechanism. Maybe that is
the best which can be done, but the side effect there is way-off
accounting under pretty common workload, which sounds pretty nasty to
me.

Thanks.

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tejun

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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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