linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove memcg_kmem_skip

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Message-ID: <20180919142258.GA15400@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:22:58 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove memcg_kmem_skip_account

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:45:01PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The flag memcg_kmem_skip_account was added during the era of opt-out
> kmem accounting. There is no need for such flag in the opt-in world as
> there aren't any __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within
> memcg_create_cache_enqueue().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>