Re: [RFC PATCH] memcg: adjust memcg for new cgroup allocations

[Michal Koutný]

Hello.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:42:40AM +0300, Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> However, now we want to enable accounting for some other cgroup-related
> resources called from cgroup_mkdir. We would like to guarantee that
> all new accounted allocation will be charged to the same memory cgroup.

Here's my point -- the change in the referenced patch applied to memory
controller hierarchies. This extension applies to any hierarchy that can
create groups, namely, a hierarchy without memory controller too. There
mem_cgroup_from_cgroup falls back to the root memcg (on a different
hierarchy).

If the purpose is to prevent unlimited creation of cgroup objects, the
root memcg is by principle unlimited, so it's just for accounting.

But I understand the purpose is to have everything under one roof,
unless the object lifetime is not bound to that owning memcg. Should
memory-less hierarchies be treated specially?

> +static inline struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_cgroup(struct cgroup *cgroup)
[...]
> +	css = cgroup_get_e_css(cgroup, &memory_cgrp_subsys);
> +
> +	if (css)
> +		memcg = container_of(css, struct mem_cgroup, css);

Nit: mem_cgroup_from_css

Regards,
Michal

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