Re: [PATCH] ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop()

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 14-09-21 16:23:16, Michal Koutny wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 09:13:48AM +0200, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "
> > This object can consume up to 2 pages, syscall is sleeping one,
> > size and duration can be controlled by user, and this allocation
> > can be repeated by many thread at the same time.
> > "
> > 
> > It sounds like a problem, except it is not because? A worst case
> > scenario evaluation would be beneficial for example
> 
> AFAICS, the offending allocation is in place only during the duration of
> the syscall. So it's basically O(#tasks).
> Considering at least 2 pages for task_struct + 2 pages for kernel stack,
> back of the envelope calculation gives me the footprint amplification is
> <1.5.
> The factor would IMO be interesting if it was >> 2 (from the PoV of
> excessive (ab)use, fine-grained accounting seems to be currently
> unfeasible due to performance impact).

Yes this sounds exactly like something I would appreciate in the
changelog. With that or similar feel free to add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot Michal for this clarification! 

> The commit message can be more explicit about this but to the patch
> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs