Re: [PATCH 12/13] mm: memcontrol: account socket memory in unified hierarchy memory controller

[David Miller]

From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:58:44 -0500

> Socket memory can be a significant share of overall memory consumed by
> common workloads. In order to provide reasonable resource isolation in
> the unified hierarchy, this type of memory needs to be included in the
> tracking/accounting of a cgroup under active memory resource control.
> 
> Overhead is only incurred when a non-root control group is created AND
> the memory controller is instructed to track and account the memory
> footprint of that group. cgroup.memory=nosocket can be specified on
> the boot commandline to override any runtime configuration and
> forcibly exclude socket memory from active memory resource control.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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