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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	"hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	"bsingharora@gmail.com" <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/7 v2] memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from pc->flags
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:47:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124134750.de5f31ee.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALWz4izasaECifCYoRXL45x1YXYzACC=kUHQivnGZKRH+ySjuw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:02:48 -0800
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:40 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >
> > From 1008e84d94245b1e7c4d237802ff68ff00757736 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:53:24 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH 3/7] memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from pc->flags.
> >
> > PCG_MOVE_LOCK bit is used for bit spinlock for avoiding race between
> > memcg's account moving and page state statistics updates.
> >
> > Considering page-statistics update, very hot path, this lock is
> > taken only when someone is moving account (or PageTransHuge())
> > And, now, all moving-account between memcgroups (by task-move)
> > are serialized.
> 
> This might be a side question, can you clarify the serialization here?
> Does it mean that we only allow one task-move at a time system-wide?
> 

current implementation has that limit by mutex.

Thanks,
-Kame

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-24  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-13  8:30 [RFC] [PATCH 0/7 v2] memcg: page_cgroup diet KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-13  8:32 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/7 v2] memcg: remove unnecessary check in mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 15:16   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-17 23:55     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-18 13:01       ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-19  2:18         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 20:07         ` Ying Han
2012-01-20  0:48           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-13  8:33 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/7 v2] memcg: add memory barrier for checking account move KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 15:26   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-18  0:06     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-18 12:37       ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-19  2:17         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19  9:28           ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-19 23:57             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-20 18:08           ` Ying Han
2012-01-23  9:04             ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-24  3:21               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-24  8:49                 ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-24 19:04               ` Ying Han
2012-01-25 11:07                 ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-13  8:40 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/7 v2] memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from pc->flags KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-16 12:55   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-01-17  0:22     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 16:46   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-18  0:12     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-18 10:47       ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-18 23:53         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-23 22:05           ` Ying Han
2012-01-24  4:59             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-24  8:43             ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-25 23:07               ` Ying Han
2012-01-26  9:16                 ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-23 22:02   ` Ying Han
2012-01-24  4:47     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2012-01-25 22:48       ` Ying Han
2012-01-13  8:41 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/7 v2] memcg: new scheme to update per-memcg page stat accounting KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-18 16:45   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-18 23:58     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-26 19:01   ` Ying Han
2012-01-13  8:42 ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/7 v2] memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 14:07   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-26 19:10     ` Ying Han
2012-01-13  8:43 ` [RFC] [PATCH 6/7 v2] memcg: remove PCG_CACHE KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-13  8:45 ` [RFC] [PATCH 7/7 v2] memcg: make mem_cgroup_begin_update_stat to use global pcpu KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 14:47   ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-20  2:19     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-20  8:38       ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-20  8:40   ` Greg Thelen
2012-01-24  3:18     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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