Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: proc: add Sock to /proc/meminfo

[Cong Wang]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:53 AM Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are not complaining about TCP using too much memory, but how do
> we know that TCP uses a lot of memory. When I firstly face this problem,
> I do not know who uses the 25GB memory and it is not shown in the /proc/meminfo.
> If we can know the amount memory of the socket buffer via /proc/meminfo, we
> may not need to spend a lot of time troubleshooting this problem. Not everyone
> knows that a lot of memory may be used here. But I believe many people
> should know /proc/meminfo to confirm memory users.

Well, I'd bet networking people know `ss -m` better than /proc/meminfo,
generally speaking.

The practice here is that if you want some networking-specific counters,
add it to where networking people know better, that is, `ss -m` or /proc/net/...

Or maybe the problem you described is not specific to networking at all,
there must be some other places where pages are allocated but not charged.
If so, adding a general mm counter in /proc/meminfo makes sense, but
it won't be specific to networking.

Thanks.