From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10] mm/memcg: take care over pc->mem_cgroup
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:37:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1202211117340.1858@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4331BC.70205@openvz.org>
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
> But just one question: how appears uncharged pages in mem-cg lru lists?
One way is swapin readahead pages, which cannot be charged to a memcg
until they're "claimed"; but we do need them visible on lru, otherwise
memory pressure couldn't reclaim them when necessary.
Another way is simply that uncharging has not historically removed the
page from lru list if it's on. I usually assume that's an optimization:
why bother to get lru locks and take it off (and put it on the root lru?
if we don't, we're assuming it's will be freed very shortly - I'm not
sure that's always a good assumption), if freeing the page will usually
do that for us (without having to change lrus).
If I thought for longer, I might come up with other scenarios.
> Maybe we can forbid this case and uncharge these pages right in
> __page_cache_release() and release_pages() at final removing from LRU.
> This is how my old mem-controller works. There pages in lru are always
> charged.
As things stand, that would mean lock_page_cgroup() has to disable irqs
everywhere. I'm not sure of the further ramifications of moving uncharge
to __page_cache_release() and release_pages(). I don't think a change
like that is out of the question, but it's certainly a bigger change
than I'd like to consider in this series.
Hugh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-21 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-20 23:26 [PATCH 0/10] mm/memcg: per-memcg per-zone lru locking Hugh Dickins
2012-02-20 23:28 ` [PATCH 1/10] mm/memcg: scanning_global_lru means mem_cgroup_disabled Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 8:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20 23:29 ` [PATCH 2/10] mm/memcg: move reclaim_stat into lruvec Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 8:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20 23:30 ` [PATCH 3/10] mm/memcg: add zone pointer " Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 8:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20 23:32 ` [PATCH 4/10] mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 8:20 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-21 22:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-20 23:33 ` [PATCH 5/10] mm/memcg: introduce page_relock_lruvec Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 8:38 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-21 22:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-20 23:34 ` [PATCH 6/10] mm/memcg: take care over pc->mem_cgroup Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 5:55 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-21 19:37 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2012-02-21 20:40 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-21 22:05 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 6:05 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-21 20:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 9:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-21 23:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-22 4:05 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-20 23:35 ` [PATCH 7/10] mm/memcg: remove mem_cgroup_reset_owner Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 9:17 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20 23:36 ` [PATCH 8/10] mm/memcg: nest lru_lock inside page_cgroup lock Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 9:48 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20 23:38 ` [PATCH 9/10] mm/memcg: move lru_lock into lruvec Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 7:08 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-21 20:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-21 21:35 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-21 22:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-22 3:43 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-22 6:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-23 14:21 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-20 23:39 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm/memcg: per-memcg per-zone lru locking Hugh Dickins
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