fs, mm: account buffer_head to kmemcg
The buffer_head can consume a significant amount of system memory and is
directly related to the amount of page cache. In our production
environment we have observed that a lot of machines are spending a
significant amount of memory as buffer_head and can not be left as
system memory overhead.
Charging buffer_head is not as simple as adding __GFP_ACCOUNT to the
allocation. The buffer_heads can be allocated in a memcg different from
the memcg of the page for which buffer_heads are being allocated. One
concrete example is memory reclaim. The reclaim can trigger I/O of
pages of any memcg on the system. So, the right way to charge
buffer_head is to extract the memcg from the page for which buffer_heads
are being allocated and then use targeted memcg charging API.
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[email protected]: use __GFP_ACCOUNT for directed memcg charging]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>