From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerome Glisse Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm/memcontrol: allow to uncharge page without using page->lru field Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:54:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20170710165420.GC4964@redhat.com> References: <20170703211415.11283-1-jglisse@redhat.com> <20170703211415.11283-5-jglisse@redhat.com> <20170704125113.GC14727@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170705143528.GB3305@redhat.com> <20170710082805.GD19185@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170710153222.GA4964@redhat.com> <20170710160444.GB7071@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20170710162542.GB4964@redhat.com> <20170710163651.GD7071@dhcp22.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com A1BA23D956 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170710163651.GD7071@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Michal Hocko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, John Hubbard , David Nellans , Dan Williams , Balbir Singh , Johannes Weiner , Vladimir Davydov , cgroups@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 06:36:52PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 10-07-17 12:25:42, Jerome Glisse wrote: > [...] > > Bottom line is that we can always free and uncharge device memory > > page just like any regular page. >=20 > OK, this answers my earlier question. Then it should be feasible to > charge this memory. There are still some things to handle. E.g. how do > we consider this memory during oom victim selection (this is not > accounted as an anonymous memory in get_mm_counter, right?), maybe others. > But the primary point is that nobody pins the memory outside of the > mapping. At this point it is accounted as a regular page would be (anonymous, file or share memory). I wanted mm_counters to reflect memcg but i can untie that. Like i said at this point we are unsure how usage of such memory will impact thing so i wanted to keep all thing as if it was regular memory to avoid anuything to behave too much differently. J=E9r=F4me -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org