netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net, mm: account sock objects to kmemcg

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:03:40 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net, mm: account sock objects to kmemcg



On 06/27/2018 03:16 PM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Currently the kernel accounts the memory for network traffic through
> mem_cgroup_[un]charge_skmem() interface. However the memory accounted
> only includes the truesize of sk_buff which does not include the size of
> sock objects. In our production environment, with opt-out kmem
> accounting, the sock kmem caches (TCP[v6], UDP[v6], RAW[v6], UNIX) are
> among the top most charged kmem caches and consume a significant amount
> of memory which can not be left as system overhead. So, this patch
> converts the kmem caches of all sock objects to SLAB_ACCOUNT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks !