Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add replace_page(), change the mapping of pte fromone page into another

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 05:06:23 EST


KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
Can I make a question ? (I'm working for memory cgroup.)

Now, we do charge to anonymous page when
- charge(+1) when it's mapped firstly (mapcount 0->1)
- uncharge(-1) it's fully unmapped (mapcount 1->0) vir page_remove_rmap().

My quesion is
- PageKSM pages are not necessary to be tracked by memory cgroup ?
- Can we know that "the page is just replaced and we don't necessary to do
charge/uncharge".
- annonymous page from KSM is worth to be tracked by memory cgroup ?
(IOW, it's on LRU and can be swapped-out ?)

My feeling is that shared pages should be accounted as if they were not shared; that is, a share page should be accounted for each process that shares it. Perhaps sharing within a cgroup should be counted as 1 page for all the ptes pointing to it.


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