On Sat 20-07-24 07:41:19, Qu Wenruo wrote: [...] > So according to the trend, I'm pretty sure VFS people will reject such > new interface just to skip accounting. I would just give it a try with your usecase described. If this is a nogo then the root cgroup workaround is still available. > Thus the GFP_NO_ACCOUNT solution looks more feasible. So we have GFP_ACCOUNT to opt in for accounting and now we should be adding GFP_NO_ACCOUNT to override it? This doesn't sound like a good use of gfp flags (which we do not have infinitely) and it is also quite confusing TBH. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs