Re: [PATCH -mmotm 0/5] memcg: per cgroup dirty limit (v6)

[Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:14:11AM +0900, Daisuke Nishimura wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:42:44 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:25:00 +0900
> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > Then, it's not problem that check pc->mem_cgroup is root cgroup or not
> > > without spinlock.
> > > ==
> > > void mem_cgroup_update_stat(struct page *page, int idx, bool charge)
> > > {
> > > 	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
> > > 	if (unlikely(!pc) || mem_cgroup_is_root(pc->mem_cgroup))
> > > 		return;	
> > > 	...
> > > }
> > > ==
> > > This can be handle in the same logic of "lock failure" path.
> > > And we just do ignore accounting.
> > > 
> > > There are will be no spinlocks....to do more than this,
> > > I think we have to use "struct page" rather than "struct page_cgroup".
> > > 
> > Hmm..like this ? The bad point of this patch is that this will corrupt FILE_MAPPED
> > status in root cgroup. This kind of change is not very good.
> > So, one way is to use this kind of function only for new parameters. Hmm.
> IMHO, if we disable accounting file stats in root cgroup, it would be better
> not to show them in memory.stat to avoid confusing users.

Or just show the same values that we show in /proc/meminfo.. (I mean,
not actually the same, but coherent with them).

> But, hmm, I think accounting them in root cgroup isn't so meaningless.
> Isn't making mem_cgroup_has_dirty_limit() return false in case of root cgroup enough?

Agreed. Returning false from mem_cgroup_has_dirty_limit() is enough to
always use global stats for the writeback, so this shouldn't introduce
any overhead for the root cgroup (at least for this part).

-Andrea