netdev - Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/3] memcg/tcp: ignore tcp usage before accounting started

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Message-ID: <4F742983.1080402@parallels.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:21:07 +0200
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 3/3] memcg/tcp: ignore tcp usage before accounting
 started

On 03/29/2012 09:10 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> tcp memcontrol starts accouting after res->limit is set. So, if a sockets
> starts before setting res->limit, there are already used resource.
> After setting res->limit, the resource (already used) will be uncharged and
> make res_counter below 0 because they are not charged. This causes warning.
> 
> This patch fixes that by adding res_counter_uncharge_nowarn().
> (*) We cannot avoid this while we have 'account start' switch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Fine by me.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>

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