Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754507Ab2HONCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:02:32 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46403 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754436Ab2HONCb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:02:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:02:28 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure Message-ID: <20120815130228.GH23985@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1344517279-30646-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1344517279-30646-5-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20120814162144.GC6905@dhcp22.suse.cz> <502B6D03.1080804@parallels.com> <20120815123931.GF23985@dhcp22.suse.cz> <502B9BD4.4070003@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <502B9BD4.4070003@parallels.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1277 Lines: 31 On Wed 15-08-12 16:53:40, Glauber Costa wrote: [...] > >>> This doesn't check for the hierachy so kmem_accounted might not be in > >>> sync with it's parents. mem_cgroup_create (below) needs to copy > >>> kmem_accounted down from the parent and the above needs to check if this > >>> is a similar dance like mem_cgroup_oom_control_write. > >>> > >> > >> I don't see why we have to. > >> > >> I believe in a A/B/C hierarchy, C should be perfectly able to set a > >> different limit than its parents. Note that this is not a boolean. > > > > Ohh, I wasn't clear enough. I am not against setting the _limit_ I just > > meant that the kmem_accounted should be consistent within the hierarchy. > > > > If a parent of yours is accounted, you get accounted as well. This is > not the state in this patch, but gets added later. Isn't this enough ? But if the parent is not accounted, you can set the children to be accounted, right? Or maybe this is changed later in the series? I didn't get to the end yet. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/