Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] mm: kmem: enable kernel memcg accounting from interrupt contexts

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 18:02:59 EST


On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:52 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If a memcg to charge can be determined (using remote charging API),
> there are no reasons to exclude allocations made from an interrupt
> context from the accounting.
>
> Such allocations will pass even if the resulting memcg size will
> exceed the hard limit, but it will affect the application of the
> memory pressure and an inability to put the workload under the limit
> will eventually trigger the OOM.
>
> To use active_memcg() helper, memcg_kmem_bypass() is moved back
> to memcontrol.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>