[PATCH 03/13] mm: shmem: provide oom badness for shmem files

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2022-06-11 10:06, Christian König wrote:
> Am 10.06.22 um 16:16 schrieb Michal Hocko:
>> [...]
>>>> Just consider the above mentioned memcg driven model. It doesn't really
>>>> require to chase specific files and do some arbitrary math to share the
>>>> responsibility. It has a clear accounting and responsibility model.
>>> Ok, how does that work then?
>> The memory is accounted to whoever faults that memory in or to the
>> allocating context if that is a kernel memory (in most situations).
> 
> That's what I had in mind as well. Problem with this approach is that file descriptors are currently not informed that they are shared between processes.
> 
> So to make this work we would need something like attach/detach to process in struct file_operations.
> 
> And as I noted, this happens rather often. For example a game which renders 120 frames per second needs to transfer 120 buffers per second between client and X.

FWIW, in the steady state, the game will cycle between a small (generally 2-5) set of buffers. The game will not cause new buffers to be exported & imported for every frame.

In general, I'd expect dma-buf export & import to happen relatively rarely, e.g. when a window is opened or resized.


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