Re: [PATCH/stylefix 3/4] memcg: avoid account not-on-LRU pages

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 00:43:43 EST


On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:19:10 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > This is conding-style fixed version. Thank you, Nishimura-san.
> > -Kmae
> > ==
> > There are not-on-LRU pages which can be mapped and they are not worth to
> > be accounted. (becasue we can't shrink them and need dirty codes to handle
> > specical case) We'd like to make use of usual objrmap/radix-tree's protcol
> > and don't want to account out-of-vm's control pages.
> >
> > When special_mapping_fault() is called, page->mapping is tend to be NULL
> > and it's charged as Anonymous page.
> > insert_page() also handles some special pages from drivers.
> >
> > This patch is for avoiding to account special pages.
> >
> > Changlog: v5 -> v6
> > - modified Documentation.
> > - fixed to charge only when a page is newly allocated.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> [snip]
> > @@ -2463,6 +2457,7 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *
> > struct page *page;
> > pte_t entry;
> > int anon = 0;
> > + int charged = 0;
> > struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
> > struct vm_fault vmf;
> > int ret;
> > @@ -2503,6 +2498,12 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *
> > ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
> > goto out;
> > }
> > + if (mem_cgroup_charge(page, mm, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> > + ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
> > + page_cache_release(page);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > + charged = 1;
>
> If I understand this correctly, we now account only when the VMA is not shared?
> Seems reasonable, since we don't allocate a page otherwise.
>
When we allocate a new page. If in page-cache, it's accounted at radix-tree.

>
> [snip]
>
>
> > Index: mmotm-2.6.27-rc7+/mm/rmap.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- mmotm-2.6.27-rc7+.orig/mm/rmap.c
> > +++ mmotm-2.6.27-rc7+/mm/rmap.c
> > @@ -725,8 +725,8 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page,
> > page_clear_dirty(page);
> > set_page_dirty(page);
> > }
> > -
> > - mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(page);
> > + if (PageAnon(page))
> > + mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(page);
>
> Is the change because we expect the page to get directly uncharged when it is
> removed from cache? i.e, page->mapping is set to NULL before uncharge?
>
yes. I expect deletion from radix-tree catch page-cache.

> Looks good to me, I am yet to test it though.
>
Thanks,
-Kame

> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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