Re: a room for blkio-cgroup in struct page_cgroup

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Wed Sep 02 2009 - 09:13:00 EST


Ryo Tsuruta wrote:
> Hi Kamezawa-san,
>
> As you wrote before (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/22/65)
>> To be honest, what I expected in these days for people of blockio
>> cgroup is like following for getting room for themselves.
> <<snip>>
>> --- mmotm-2.6.31-Jul16.orig/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
>> +++ mmotm-2.6.31-Jul16/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
>> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
>> struct page_cgroup {
>> unsigned long flags;
>> struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
>> - struct page *page;
>> + /* block io tracking will use extra unsigned long bytes */
>> struct list_head lru; /* per cgroup LRU list */
>> };
>
> Have you already added a room for blkio_cgroup in struct page_cgroup?
No.

> If not, I would like you to apply the above change to mmotm.
>
Plz wait until October. We're deadly busy and some amount of more important
patches are piled up in front of us. I have no objections if you add
a pointer or id because I know I can reduce 8(4)bytes later.
Just add (a small) member for a while and ignore page_cgroup's size.
I'll fix later.

> The latest blkio-cgroup has reflected the comments you pointed out.
> I would also like you to give me any comments on it and consider
> merging blkio-cgroup to mmotm.
>
BTW, do you all have cosensus about implementation ?

Bye,
-Kame


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