Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] cgroup: charge kernel work to the cgroup it is done for

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 10:28:10AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Shakeel.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 11:47:04AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > This series lets a kernel thread say which cgroup it is working for.
> > That cgroup then sees the CPU time in its cpu.stat and the stalls in
> > its memory.pressure, and the CPU time comes out of its cpu.max quota.
> > The first user is the memcg reclaim that runs from high_work.
> 
> This doesn't translate to net rx, which is another major source of
> displaced CPU usage. Switching membership on each packet isn't going to
> work there. Attribution can't happen that way. We'd much rather count
> per-cgroup received packets and prorate the CPU consumption. If at all
> possible, I think it'd be better to adopt an approach which can cover
> both use cases.

Ideally RX would be split for each network queue, rather than lumped
into the one giant softirq that nobody owns.

I know PREEMPT_RT has been wanting something like that for ages. Not all
queues are created equal. Some might want RT priority while others
should definitely not.

Furthermore, without ingress throttling, your RX back charge could
completely deplete the actual cgroup time quota.

Anyway, if you get per queue RX processing threads, then you can move
them into cgroups where so desired.