Re: [RFC][PATCH] the proposal of improve page reclaim by throttle

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 06:01:36 EST


Hi balbir-san

> It's good to keep the main reclaim code and the memory controller reclaim in
> sync, so this is a nice effort.

thank you.
I will repost next version (fixed nick's opinion) while a few days.

> > @@ -1456,7 +1501,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
> > int target_zone = gfp_zone(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
> >
> > zones = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zonelists[target_zone].zones;
> > - if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
> > + if (try_to_free_pages_throttled(zones, 0, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
> > return 1;
> > return 0;
> > }
>
> try_to_free_pages_throttled checks for zone_watermark_ok(), that will not work
> in the case that we are reclaiming from a cgroup which over it's limit. We need
> a different check, to see if the mem_cgroup is still over it's limit or not.

That makes sense.

unfortunately, I don't know mem-cgroup so much.
What do i use function, instead?
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