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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>2016-01-15 02:19:41 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-15 03:00:49 +0300
commit9ee11ba4251dddf1b0e507d184b25b1bd7820773 (patch)
treee07255c31c668b5a6cb7dc04bf46dd3542a8eb51 /fs/block_dev.c
parent316bda0e6cc5f36f94b4af8bded16d642c90ad75 (diff)
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memcg: do not allow to disable tcp accounting after limit is set
There are two bits defined for cg_proto->flags - MEMCG_SOCK_ACTIVATED and MEMCG_SOCK_ACTIVE - both are set in tcp_update_limit, but the former is never cleared while the latter can be cleared by unsetting the limit. This allows to disable tcp socket accounting for new sockets after it was enabled by writing -1 to memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes while still guaranteeing that memcg_socket_limit_enabled static key will be decremented on memcg destruction. This functionality looks dubious, because it is not clear what a use case would be. By enabling tcp accounting a user accepts the price. If they then find the performance degradation unacceptable, they can always restart their workload with tcp accounting disabled. It does not seem there is any need to flip it while the workload is running. Besides, it contradicts to how kmem accounting API works: writing whatever to memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes enables kmem accounting for the cgroup in question, after which it cannot be disabled. Therefore one might expect that writing -1 to memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes just enables socket accounting w/o limiting it, which might be useful by itself, but it isn't true. Since this API peculiarity is not documented anywhere, I propose to drop it. This will allow to simplify the code by dropping cg_proto->flags. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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