linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/1] Try to add memory allocation info for cgroup oom kill

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Message-ID: <cca3gvk5gco6i2vbjvtarmi77imgj5y64kqb7bebcrbjagdwca@4p6zq4iaiqr6>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:07:57 -0700
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, 
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Yueyang Pan <pyyjason@...il.com>, 
	Usama Arif <usamaarif642@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Sourav Panda <souravpanda@...gle.com>, Pasha Tatashin <tatashin@...gle.com>, 
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] Try to add memory allocation info for cgroup oom kill

On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM Kent Overstreet
> <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:47:06AM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM Kent Overstreet
> > > <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think that got the memcg people looking at ways to make the accounting
> > > > cheaper, but I'm not sure if anything landed from that.
> > >
> > > Yes, Roman landed a series of changes reducing the memcg accounting overhead.
> >
> > Do you know offhand how big that was?
> 
> I'll need to dig it up but it was still much higher than memory profiling.

What benchmark/workload was used to compare memcg accounting and memory
profiling?