From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: per-cpu statistics Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:25:11 +0400 Message-ID: <51344C57.7030807@parallels.com> References: <512F0E76.2020707@parallels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: cgroups-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sha Zhengju Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Michal Hocko , "linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org" , Johannes Weiner , Tejun Heo , Cgroups , Mel Gorman On 03/01/2013 05:48 PM, Sha Zhengju wrote: > Hi Glauber, > > Forgive me, I'm replying not because I know the reason of current > per-cpu implementation but that I notice you're mentioning something > I'm also interested in. Below is the detail. > > > I'm not sure I fully understand your points, root memcg now don't > charge page already and only do some page stat > accounting(CACHE/RSS/SWAP). Can you point me to the final commits of this in the tree? I am using the latest git mm from mhocko and it is not entirely clear for me what are you talking about. > Now I'm also trying to do some > optimization specific to the overhead of root memcg stat accounting, > and the first attempt is posted here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/2/71 . But it only covered > FILE_MAPPED/DIRTY/WRITEBACK(I've add the last two accounting in that > patchset) and Michal Hock accepted the approach (so did Kame) and > suggested I should handle all the stats in the same way including > CACHE/RSS. But I do not handle things related to memcg LRU where I > notice you have done some work. > Yes, LRU is a bit tricky and it is what is keeping me from posting the patchset I have. I haven't fully done it, but I am on my way. > It's possible that we may take different ways to bypass root memcg > stat accounting. The next round of the part will be sent out in > following few days(doing some tests now), and for myself any comments > and collaboration are welcome. (Glad to cc to you of course if you're > also interest in it. :) ) > I am interested, of course. As you know, I started to work on this a while ago and had to interrupt it for a while. I resumed it last week, but if you managed to merge something already, I'd happy to rebase.