Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 09:31:59PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > > But what task/memcg is used for the accounting in that case? > > Root memcg/no accounting, which is the same. > > There is a way to account for a specific memcg in such cases, it's used for > bpf maps, for example. We save a pointer to the memcg which created the map and > charge it for all allocations from a !in_task context. Great, so we could use same scheme later on if its required for some use case. > so let's not do without regression tests and a serious need. Sounds good. Thanks.
