Hello, On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 08:26:27AM -0000, Hao Lee wrote: > memcg currently has a remote charging mechanism that can charge usage to other > memcg instead of the one the task belongs to. > > In our environment, we need to account the cpu usage consumed by some kworkers > to a specific cgroup. Thus, we want to introduce a remote-charging mechanism to > cpu and cpuacct subsys in our kernel. > > I want to know if the community has a plan to do this? > What will the community approach look like? Yeah, we need sth like this to account for cpu cycles spent in commont path but caused by specific cgroups - e.g. memory reclaim, net packet rx and so on. There were some mentions of needing somthing like that but haven't been any patchsets or concrete efforts that I know of. Thanks. -- tejun
