Re: [PATCH V3] nommu: add anonymous page memcg accounting

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 00:39:45 EST


On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:23:03 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Steven J. Magnani <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-10-21 07:28:08]:
>
> > Add the necessary calls to track VM anonymous page usage (only).
> >
> > V3 changes:
> > * Use vma->vm_mm instead of current->mm when charging pages, for clarity
> > * Document that reclaim is not possible with only anonymous page accounting
> > so the OOM-killer is invoked when a limit is exceeded
> > * Add TODO to implement file cache (reclaim) support or optimize away
> > page_cgroup->lru
> >
> > V2 changes:
> > * Added update of memory cgroup documentation
> > * Clarify use of 'file' to distinguish anonymous mappings
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> BTW, I have no way of testing this, we need to rely on the NOMMU
> community to test this.
>
Yes, that's the biggest problem.

-Kame

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