Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] slab: add SLAB_ACCOUNT flag

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:54:01PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > Am I correct in thinking that we should eventually be able to removed
> > __GFP_ACCOUNT and that only caches explicitly marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT
> > would need to be handled by kmemcg?
> 
> Don't think so, because sometimes we want to account kmalloc.

I'm kinda skeptical about that because if those allocations are
occassional by nature, we don't care and if there can be a huge number
of them, splitting them into a separate cache makes sense.  I think it
makes sense to pin down exactly which caches are memcg managed.  That
has the potential to simplify the involved code path and shave off a
small bit of hot path overhead.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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