Re: [PATCH 0/2] memcg: add pagetable comsumption to memory.stat

[Roman Gushchin]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 01:01:18PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:34 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 04:56:01PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > Many workloads consumes significant amount of memory in pagetables. This
> > > patch series exposes the pagetable comsumption for each memory cgroup.
> >
> > Hi Shakeel!
> >
> > The code looks good to me. However I'm not sure I understand what's the
> > use case for the new statistics? Can you, please, elaborate a bit more here?
> >
> > From a very first glance, the size of pagetables should be _roughly_ equal
> > to the size_of(pte)/PAGE_SIZE*(size of a cgroup) and should not exceed 1%
> > of the cgroup size. So for all but very large cgroups the value will be
> > in the noise of per-cpu counters. Perhaps I'm missing some important cases?
> >
> 
> I think this is in general a good metric to have but one specific
> use-case we have is the user space network driver which mmaps the
> memory of the applications for zero copy data transfers. This driver
> can consume a large amount of memory in page tables. So, this metric
> becomes really useful here.

Got it, thank you for the explanation!
Would you mind to add this text to the cover letter as an example?

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
for the series.

Thanks!