Re: [RFC PATCH] No Reclaim LRU Infrastructure enhancement for memcgroup

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Wed May 28 2008 - 22:32:20 EST


KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
>
>> In my understanding, 2 checks we have to do.
>>
>> 1. When memcg finds PG_noreclaim page in its LRU, move it to noreclaim list of
>> memcg.
>> 2. When PG_noreclaim page is moved back to generic LRU, memcg should move
>> it on its list. (we have to add a hook somewhere.)
>>
>> But this may break current 'loose' synchronization between global LRU and
>> memcg's LRU. When PG_noreclaim page is put back into active/inactive LRU ?
>>
>> concerns are
>> A. how to implement '2'
>
> I tried to implement it today.
> this patch is made against "[PATCH -mm 13/16] No Reclaim LRU Infrastructure"
>
>
>> B. race condtions.
>
> don't worry :)
> it isn't big problem.
>
> global lru is reclaimbale and memcg lru is noreclaimable
> -> we can repair at move lru of shrink_[in]active_page().
>
> global lru is noreclaimbale and memcg lru is reclaimable
> -> we can repair mem_cgroup_isolate_pages()
>
>

I've tried these patches and I still get OOM killed. I'll investigate a bit more.


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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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