netdev - Re: [PATCH] mm: net: memcg accounting for TCP rx zerocopy

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Message-ID: <20210113184302.GA355124@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:43:02 -0800
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: net: memcg accounting for TCP rx zerocopy

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 04:18:44PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:12 PM Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:48 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
> > >
> [snip]
> > > Historically we have a corresponding vmstat counter to each charged page.
> > > It helps with finding accounting/stastistics issues: we can check that
> > > memory.current ~= anon + file + sock + slab + percpu + stack.
> > > It would be nice to preserve such ability.
> > >
> >
> > Perhaps one option would be to have it count as a file page, or have a
> > new category.
> >
> 
> Oh these are actually already accounted for in NR_FILE_MAPPED.

Well, it's confusing. Can't we fix this by looking at the new page memcg flag?