linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix memcg/memory.high in case kmem accounting is enabled

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:22:22 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix memcg/memory.high in case kmem accounting is
 enabled

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> I totally agree that we should strive to make a kmem user feel roughly
> the same in memcg as if it were running on a host with equal amount of
> RAM. There are two ways to achieve that:
>
>  1. Make the API functions, i.e. kmalloc and friends, behave inside
>     memcg roughly the same way as they do in the root cgroup.
>  2. Make the internal memcg functions, i.e. try_charge and friends,
>     behave roughly the same way as alloc_pages.
>
> I find way 1 more flexible, because we don't have to blindly follow
> heuristics used on global memory reclaim and therefore have more
> opportunities to achieve the same goal.

The heuristics need to integrate well if its in a cgroup or not. In
general make use of cgroups as transparent as possible to the rest of the
code.

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