Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] memcg : force_empty to do move account

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 01:18:34 EST


On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:15:41 -0800
Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:52 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch provides a function to move account information of a page between
> > mem_cgroups and rewrite force_empty to make use of this.
>
> One part of this that wasn't clear to me - if a cgroup has a lot of
> unmapped pagecache sitting around but no tasks, and we try to rmdir
> it, then all the pagecache gets moved to the parent too? Or just the
> stray mapped pages?
>
All page caches will be moved to.
(I'll add "shrink_usage" interface to drop page caches, later.)

> > @@ -597,7 +709,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(stru
> > prefetchw(pc);
> >
> > mem = memcg;
> > - ret = mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, gfp_mask, &mem);
> > + ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, gfp_mask, &mem, true);
>
> Isn't this the same as the definition of mem_cgroup_try_charge()? So
> you could leave it as-is?
>
try_charge is called by other places....swapin.

Thanks,
-Kame

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