linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/2] memcg: Adapt cgroup.top into per-memcg

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:38:19 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Lu Jialin <lujialin4@...wei.com>
Cc:     Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...wei.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] memcg: Adapt cgroup.top into per-memcg

On Fri 26-08-22 09:15:03, Lu Jialin wrote:
> cgroup.top is able to show resource usage information for each cgroups.
> Currently only memory usage is monitored ,including usage,anon,file,
> kmem(Bytes), stats for other resource types would be added as well.
> 
> Show case:
> / # mount -t cgroup2 none /sys/fs/cgroup
> / # cd /sys/fs/cgroup/
> /sys/fs/cgroup # echo "+memory" > cgroup.subtree_control
> /sys/fs/cgroup # mkdir test1
> /sys/fs/cgroup # mkdir test2
> /sys/fs/cgroup # mkdir test3
> /sys/fs/cgroup # echo $$ > test2/cgroup.procs
> /sys/fs/cgroup # cd /test
> /test # ./memcg_malloc 512000 &
> /test # ./memcg_malloc 512000 &
> /test # ./memcg_malloc 512000 &
> /test # cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> /sys/fs/cgroup # echo $$ > test1/cgroup.procs
> /sys/fs/cgroup # cd /test
> /test # ./memcg_malloc 512000 &
> /test # cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> /sys/fs/cgroup # echo $$ > test3/cgroup.procs
> /sys/fs/cgroup # cat cgroup.top
> memory top:
> name            usage           anon            file            kernel
> test2           1974272         1671168         0               270336
> test1           700416          569344          0               94208
> test3           196608          86016           0               86016

This information is already present in memory.stat and can be easily
post-processed to generate similar output. Why is that insufficient?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs