Hi Michal, On 03/27/2014 01:53 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 26-03-14 19:28:04, Vladimir Davydov wrote: >> We don't track any random page allocation, so we shouldn't track kmalloc >> that falls back to the page allocator. > Why did we do that in the first place? d79923fad95b (sl[au]b: allocate > objects from memcg cache) didn't tell me much. I don't know, we'd better ask Glauber about that. > How is memcg_kmem_skip_account removal related? The comment this patch removes along with the memcg_kmem_skip_account check explains that pretty well IMO. In short, we only use memcg_kmem_skip_account to prevent kmalloc's from charging, which is crucial for recursion-avoidance in memcg_kmem_get_cache. Since we don't charge pages allocated from a root (not per-memcg) cache, from the first glance it would be enough to check for memcg_kmem_skip_account only in memcg_kmem_get_cache and return the root cache if it's set. However, for we can also kmalloc w/o issuing memcg_kmem_get_cache (kmalloc_large), we also need this check in memcg_kmem_newpage_charge. This patch removes kmalloc_large accounting, so we don't need this check anymore. 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>