Some protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP) implement memory accounting for socket
buffers and charge memory to per-protocol global counters pointed to by
sk->sk_proto->memory_allocated.
Sometimes, system processes do not want that limitation. For a similar
purpose, there is SO_RESERVE_MEM for sockets under memcg.
Also, by opting out of the per-protocol accounting, sockets under memcg
can avoid paying costs for two orthogonal memory accounting mechanisms.
A microbenchmark result is in the subsequent bpf patch.
Let's allow opt-out from the per-protocol memory accounting if
sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem is true.
sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem and sk->sk_prot are placed in the same cache
line, and sk_has_account() always fetches sk->sk_prot before accessing
sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem, so there is no extra cache miss for this patch.
The following patches will set sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem to true, and
then, the per-protocol memory accounting will be skipped.
Note that this does NOT disable memcg, but rather the per-protocol one.
Another option not to use the hole in struct sock_common is create
sk_prot variants like tcp_prot_bypass, but this would complicate
SOCKMAP logic, tcp_bpf_prots etc.
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014235604.3057003-3-kuniyu@google.com
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