linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] mm: kmem: enable kernel memcg accounting from interrupt contexts

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Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:02:43 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] mm: kmem: enable kernel memcg accounting from
 interrupt contexts

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:52 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> If a memcg to charge can be determined (using remote charging API),
> there are no reasons to exclude allocations made from an interrupt
> context from the accounting.
>
> Such allocations will pass even if the resulting memcg size will
> exceed the hard limit, but it will affect the application of the
> memory pressure and an inability to put the workload under the limit
> will eventually trigger the OOM.
>
> To use active_memcg() helper, memcg_kmem_bypass() is moved back
> to memcontrol.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>