Thread (113 messages) 113 messages, 8 authors, 2012-08-22

Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag

From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-10 17:08:09
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

(2012/08/09 22:01), Glauber Costa wrote:
This flag is used to indicate to the callees that this allocation is a
kernel allocation in process context, and should be accounted to
current's memcg. It takes numerical place of the of the recently removed
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <redacted>
CC: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg-bbCR+/B0CizivPeTLB3BmA@public.gmane.org>
CC: Michal Hocko <redacted>
CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <redacted>
CC: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
CC: Suleiman Souhlal <redacted>
CC: Rik van Riel <redacted>
CC: Mel Gorman <redacted>
Okay, so, only memcg-aware allocations are accounted.
It seems a safe way to go.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted>
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