Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: memcontrol: move remote memcg charging APIs to CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 5:16 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 02:22:26PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > The remote memcg charing APIs is a mechanism to charge kernel memory
> > to a given memcg. So we can move the infrastructure to the scope of
> > the CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM.
>
> This is not a good idea, because there is nothing kmem-specific
> in the idea of remote charging, and we definitely will see cases
> when user memory is charged to the process different from the current.
>

Indeed and which remind me: what happened to the "Charge loop device
i/o to issuing cgroup" series? That series was doing remote charging
for user pages.



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