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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Synchronize task mm counters on demand
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:24:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKOZues=wHgMu9vH7ixc-vzL7b7T7OK2jYecUKvnR45Fx=HDBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOZuesZPy8rgo_pPy=cUtGcGhLzCq4X46ns7h7ta7ihrJSPWA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for taking a look.
>
> On Feb 22, 2018 6:01 PM, "Minchan Kim" <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > index ad06d42adb1a..f8129afebbdd 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > @@ -1507,14 +1507,28 @@ extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct
> *vma,
> >   */
> >  int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
> >                         struct page **pages);
> > +
> > +#ifdef SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
> > +/* Flush all task-buffered MM counters to the mm */
> > +void sync_mm_rss_all_users(struct mm_struct *mm);
>
> Really heavy functioin iterates all of processes and threads.
>
>
> Just all processes and the threads of each process attached to the mm.
> Maybe that's not much better.
>


Another option would be to maintain a list (with the list_head in the mm)
of all the tasks with unflushed counters. This way, we at least wouldn't
have to scan the world.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-23  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-05 22:03 [PATCH] Synchronize task mm counters on context switch Daniel Colascione
2018-02-21 19:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-22  0:16   ` Minchan Kim
2018-02-22  0:23     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-22  2:06       ` Minchan Kim
2018-02-22  2:46         ` [PATCH] Synchronize task mm counters on demand Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23  2:01           ` Minchan Kim
2018-02-23  2:09             ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23  2:24               ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2018-02-23  2:28               ` Minchan Kim
2018-02-23  2:43                 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23  3:12                   ` Minchan Kim
2018-02-23  9:50           ` f66871fb4c: WARNING:inconsistent_lock_state kernel test robot
2018-02-22  2:49         ` [PATCH] Synchronize task mm counters on context switch Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23  8:11           ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-23 16:34             ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23 17:50               ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-23 18:47                 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-02-27 10:02                   ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-22  9:40         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-22 13:06           ` Minchan Kim
2018-02-22 16:23           ` Daniel Colascione

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