[Devel] Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 15-08-12 12:12:23, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 13:33 +0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > This can
> > > be quite confusing.  I am still not sure whether we should mix the two
> > > things together. If somebody wants to limit the kernel memory he has to
> > > touch the other limit anyway.  Do you have a strong reason to mix the
> > > user and kernel counters?
> > 
> > This is funny, because the first opposition I found to this work was
> > "Why would anyone want to limit it separately?" =p
> > 
> > It seems that a quite common use case is to have a container with a
> > unified view of "memory" that it can use the way he likes, be it with
> > kernel memory, or user memory. I believe those people would be happy to
> > just silently account kernel memory to user memory, or at the most have
> > a switch to enable it.
> > 
> > What gets clear from this back and forth, is that there are people
> > interested in both use cases.
> 
> Haven't we already had this discussion during the Prague get together?
> We discussed the use cases and finally agreed to separate accounting for
> k and then k+u mem because that satisfies both the Google and Parallels
> cases.  No-one was overjoyed by k and k+u but no-one had a better
> suggestion ... is there a better way of doing this that everyone can
> agree to?
> We do need to get this nailed down because it's the foundation of the
> patch series.

There is a slot in MM/memcg minisum at KS so we have a slot to discuss
this.

> 
> James
> 
> 
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Michal Hocko
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