Re: [PATCH 04/10] memcg: Introduce __GFP_NOACCOUNT.

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On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:58:47 -0800
Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is used to indicate that we don't want an allocation to be accounted
> to the current cgroup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx>

I don't like this.

Please add 

___GFP_ACCOUNT  "account this allocation to memcg"

Or make this as slab's flag if this work is for slab allocation.

Thanks,
-Kame



> ---
>  include/linux/gfp.h |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index 581e74b..765c20f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
>  #define ___GFP_REPEAT		0x400u
>  #define ___GFP_NOFAIL		0x800u
>  #define ___GFP_NORETRY		0x1000u
> +#define ___GFP_NOACCOUNT	0x2000u
>  #define ___GFP_COMP		0x4000u
>  #define ___GFP_ZERO		0x8000u
>  #define ___GFP_NOMEMALLOC	0x10000u
> @@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
>  #define __GFP_REPEAT	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_REPEAT)	/* See above */
>  #define __GFP_NOFAIL	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOFAIL)	/* See above */
>  #define __GFP_NORETRY	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NORETRY) /* See above */
> +#define __GFP_NOACCOUNT	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOACCOUNT) /* Don't account to the current cgroup */
>  #define __GFP_COMP	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP)	/* Add compound page metadata */
>  #define __GFP_ZERO	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO)	/* Return zeroed page on success */
>  #define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOMEMALLOC) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
> -- 
> 1.7.7.3
> 
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