Creating of each new cpu cgroup allocates two 512-bytes kernel objects per CPU. This is especially important for cgroups shared parent memory cgroup. In this scenario, on nodes with multiple processors, these allocations become one of the main memory consumers. Memory allocated during new cpu cgroup creation: common part: ~11Kb + 318 bytes percpu cpu cgroup: ~2.5Kb + 1036 bytes percpu Accounting for this memory helps to avoid misuse inside memcg-limited contianers. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index e8202b5cd3d5..71161be1e783 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -11503,12 +11503,12 @@ int alloc_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent) for_each_possible_cpu(i) { cfs_rq = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct cfs_rq), - GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i)); + GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, cpu_to_node(i)); if (!cfs_rq) goto err; se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity_stats), - GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i)); + GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, cpu_to_node(i)); if (!se) goto err_free_rq; -- 2.36.1