Re: [PATCH 4/13] memcg: force_empty moving account

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:00 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> +		/* For avoiding race with speculative page cache handling. */
> +		if (!PageLRU(page) || !get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
> +			list_move(&pc->lru, list);
> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +			yield();

Gah, no way!

> +			spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +		if (!trylock_page(page)) {
> +			list_move(&pc->lru, list);
>  			put_page(page);
> -			if (--count <= 0) {
> -				count = FORCE_UNCHARGE_BATCH;
> -				cond_resched();
> -			}
> -		} else
> -			cond_resched();
> -		spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +			yield();

Seriously?!

> +			spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +		if (mem_cgroup_move_account(page, pc, mem, &init_mem_cgroup)) {
> +			/* some confliction */
> +			list_move(&pc->lru, list);
> +			unlock_page(page);
> +			put_page(page);
> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +			yield();

Inflicting pain..

> +			spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
> +		} else {
> +			unlock_page(page);
> +			put_page(page);
> +		}
> +		if (atomic_read(&mem->css.cgroup->count) > 0)
> +			break;
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);

do _NOT_ use yield() ever! unless you know what you're doing, and
probably not even then.

NAK!