Re: [PATCH 00/11] mm/cma: charge cma allocation to memcg using per area counters

From: Michal Hocko

Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 04:58:33 EST


On Fri 21-08-26 14:56:52, Eric Chanudet wrote:
> CMA allocations are currently unaccounted for by cgroup memory
> controllers. As system resources, they should fall under memcg, but CMA
> areas partition the available space for different purposes and memcg
> doesn't have a good representation for that.

Which CMA usecases are covered by this work? It would be also great to
spend more time describing usecases.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs