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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: "Eric Chanudet" <echanude@redhat.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <dev@lankhorst.se>,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	"Natalie Vock" <natalie.vock@gmx.de>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@redhat.com>,
	"Albert Esteve" <aesteve@redhat.com>,
	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cgroup/dmem: add dmem.memcg control file for double-charging to memcg
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 06:17:48 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahCBrNfiLrh10Vtq@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ahBxB5a9sX9DEWvl@localhost.localdomain>

Hello,

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 05:26:16PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Hello Eric.
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:59:02AM -0400, Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add a root-only cgroupfs file "dmem.memcg" that lets an administrator
> > configure whether allocations in a dmem region should also be charged to
> > the memory controller.
> 
> This kinda makes sense as it is not unlike io.cost.* device
> configurators.
> 
> Just for my better understanding -- will there be a space for userspace
> to switch this? (No charged dmem allocations happen before responsible
> userspace runs, so that the attribute remains unlocked.)
> 
> (I'm rather indifferent about the actual double charging/non-charging
> matter.)

I wonder whether this would make more sense as a mount flag? What's the use
case for e.g. having different config for different devices? Wouldn't that
be really confusing?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-22 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-19 15:59 [PATCH v2 0/2] cgroup/dmem: allow double-charging dmem allocations " Eric Chanudet
2026-05-19 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/memcontrol: add dmem charge/uncharge functions Eric Chanudet
2026-05-20  7:22   ` Albert Esteve
2026-05-22 15:53   ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 15:55     ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-26  7:40       ` Christian König
2026-05-27 19:10     ` Eric Chanudet
2026-05-29 14:52       ` Michal Koutný
2026-05-29 14:56   ` Michal Koutný
2026-05-19 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] cgroup/dmem: add dmem.memcg control file for double-charging to memcg Eric Chanudet
2026-05-22 15:26   ` Michal Koutný
2026-05-22 16:17     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2026-05-26  7:48       ` Christian König
2026-05-26 16:59     ` Eric Chanudet
2026-06-05 11:27       ` Maarten Lankhorst
2026-06-05 15:42         ` Eric Chanudet
2026-06-05 15:53           ` Maarten Lankhorst

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