Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:56:56 -0500 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Revert "kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg" |
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:34:02PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > This reverts commit 499611ed451508a42d1d7d1faff10177827755d5. > > Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be > fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more > allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be. > Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse > consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory > consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches. > > So it was decided to switch to the white-list policy. This patch reverts > bits introducing the black-list policy. The white-list policy will be > introduced later in the series. > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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