Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:02:28 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure |
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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
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