[Devel] Re: [PATCH v5 07/14] mm: Allocate kernel pages to the right memcg

[Glauber Costa]

On 10/18/2012 02:12 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:16:44 +0400
> Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com> wrote:
> 
>> When a process tries to allocate a page with the __GFP_KMEMCG flag, the
>> page allocator will call the corresponding memcg functions to validate
>> the allocation. Tasks in the root memcg can always proceed.
>>
>> To avoid adding markers to the page - and a kmem flag that would
>> necessarily follow, as much as doing page_cgroup lookups for no reason,
>> whoever is marking its allocations with __GFP_KMEMCG flag is responsible
>> for telling the page allocator that this is such an allocation at
>> free_pages() time.
> 
> Well, why?  Was that the correct decision?
> 
>> This is done by the invocation of
>> __free_accounted_pages() and free_accounted_pages().
> 
> These are very general-sounding names.  I'd expect the identifiers to
> contain "memcg" and/or "kmem", to identify what's going on.
> 
I've just changed to free_memcg_kmem_pages.
Let me know if the name is better.