Hello, Jeff. On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:41:11AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]> writes: > > >> I think you just need to account the completion ring. > > > > A request of struct aio_kiocb type consumes much more memory, than > > struct io_event does. Shouldn't we account it too? > > Not in my opinion. The completion ring is the part that gets pinned for > long periods of time.
For memcg, it should account all possibly significant memory consumptions whether long term or transitional. Otherwise, isolation doesn't really work that well. > Just be sure to document this where appropriate. Users/admins should > know that the aio completion ring now contributes to their memory > budget. Yeah, the memory section in cgroup-v2.txt does have a section for this. Thanks. -- tejun
