linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] memcg: adjust memcg for new cgroup allocations

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:22:59 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@...nvz.org>
Cc:     Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, hannes@...xchg.org, kernel@...nvz.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mhocko@...e.com, shakeelb@...gle.com,
        songmuchun@...edance.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] memcg: adjust memcg for new cgroup allocations

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 03:04:31PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> I would like to properly handle cgroup1 case too.
> To do it we can enable accounting for new 'struct cgroup' objects, 
> and bind them to memcg of creator task.

I'm not sure it'd be a good idea to introduce two different behaviors for
handling the same thing. I'd just leave cgroup1 as-is.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun