Hi. On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 03:28:45PM -0700, Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote: > Currently the root memory cgroup is never charged directly, but > if an ancestor cgroup is charged, the charge is propagated up to the s/ancestor/descendant/ > The root memory cgroup doesn't show the charge to a user, neither it > does allow to set any limits/protections. An appealing claim, I'd like this to be true... > Please, note, that cgroup v1 provides root level memory.usage_in_bytes. > However, it's not based on page counters (refer to mem_cgroup_usage()). ...and it almost is. But there are still exposed kmem and tcpmem counters. > To avoid multiple identical checks over the page counters > code, for_each_nonroot_ancestor() macro is introduced. If the assumptions behind this patch's idea were true, I think the implementation would be simpler by merely (not)connecting the root counters and keep the traversal as is. > direct ascendants of the corresponding root memory cgroup's page s/asc/desc/ ;-) Michal
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