Re: [PATCH] Add file based RSS accounting for memory resource controller (v2)

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:17:26 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > *But* we still have following code.
> > ==
> > 820 static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mm_struct *mm,
> >  821                         gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mem_cgroup **memcg,
> >  822    
> >  834         /*
> >  835          * We always charge the cgroup the mm_struct belongs to.
> >  836          * The mm_struct's mem_cgroup changes on task migration if the
> >  837          * thread group leader migrates. It's possible that mm is not
> >  838          * set, if so charge the init_mm (happens for pagecache usage).
> >  839          */
> >  840         mem = *memcg;
> >  841         if (likely(!mem)) {
> >  842                 mem = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(mm);
> >  843                 *memcg = mem;
> >  844         } else {
> >  845                 css_get(&mem->css);
> >  846         }
> >  847         if (unlikely(!mem))
> >  848                 return 0;
> > ==
> > 
> > So, for _now_, we should use this style of checking page_cgroup is used or not.
> > Until we fix/confirm try_charge() does.
> >
> 
> Hmm... I think we need to fix this loop hole, if not mem, we should
> look at charging the root cgroup. I suspect !mem cases should be 0,
> I'll keep that as a TODO. 
> 
yes, I'd like to keep this in my mind, too.


Thanks,
-Kame

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