On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 01:51:12PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 01-08-16 16:13:08, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > > Radix trees may be used not only for storing page cache pages, so > > unconditionally accounting radix tree nodes to the current memory cgroup > > is bad: if a radix tree node is used for storing data shared among > > different cgroups we risk pinning dead memory cgroups forever. So let's > > only account radix tree nodes if it was explicitly requested by passing > > __GFP_ACCOUNT to INIT_RADIX_TREE. Currently, we only want to account > > page cache entries, so mark mapping->page_tree so. > > > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > OK, the patch makes sense to me. Such a false sharing would be really > tedious to debug > > Do we want to mark it for stable 4.6 to prevent from some pathological > issues. The patch is simple enough. Makes sense, expecially taking into account that kmemcg is enabled by default now. I'll resend the patch for stable then. > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>