tree 66777e68e0ed5b4140c70fe3d7fc07c38324a99a
parent d86133bd396f5e4a8d5629c1b853b574de4faf32
author Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> 1469571876 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1469575159 -0700

af_unix: charge buffers to kmemcg

Unix sockets can consume a significant amount of system memory, hence
they should be accounted to kmemcg.

Since unix socket buffers are always allocated from process context, all
we need to do to charge them to kmemcg is set __GFP_ACCOUNT in
sock->sk_allocation mask.

Eric asked:

> 1) What happens when a buffer, allocated from socket <A> lands in a
> different socket <B>, maybe owned by another user/process.
>
> Who owns it now, in term of kmemcg accounting ?

We never move memcg charges.  E.g.  if two processes from different
cgroups are sharing a memory region, each page will be charged to the
process which touched it first.  Or if two processes are working with
the same directory tree, inodes and dentries will be charged to the
first user.  The same is fair for unix socket buffers - they will be
charged to the sender.

> 2) Has performance impact been evaluated ?

I ran netperf STREAM_STREAM with default options in a kmemcg on a 4 core
x2 HT box.  The results are below:

 # clients            bandwidth (10^6bits/sec)
                    base              patched
         1      67643 +-  725      64874 +-  353    - 4.0 %
         4     193585 +- 2516     186715 +- 1460    - 3.5 %
         8     194820 +-  377     187443 +- 1229    - 3.7 %

So the accounting doesn't come for free - it takes ~4% of performance.
I believe we could optimize it by using per cpu batching not only on
charge, but also on uncharge in memcg core, but that's beyond the scope
of this patch set - I'll take a look at this later.

Anyway, if performance impact is found to be unacceptable, it is always
possible to disable kmem accounting at boot time (cgroup.memory=nokmem)
or not use memory cgroups at runtime at all (thanks to jump labels
there'll be no overhead even if they are compiled in).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fcfe6cae27a59fbc5e40145664b3cf085a560c68.1464079538.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>