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

kamezawa.hiroyu
2008-09-22T15:43:21Z

----- Original Message -----
>> This force_empty is called only in following situation
>> - there is no user threas in this cgroup.
>> - a user tries to rmdir() this cgroup or explicitly type
>> echo 1 > ../memory.force_empty.
>>
>> force_empty() scans lru list of this cgroup and check page_cgroup on the
>> list one by one. Because there are no tasks in this group, force_empty can
>> see following racy condtions while scanning.
>>
>> - global lru tries to remove the page which pointed by page_cgroup
>> and it is not-on-LRU.
>
>So you either skip the page because it already got un-accounted, or you
>retry because its state is already updated to some new state.
>
>> - the page is locked by someone.
>> ....find some lock contetion with invalidation/truncate.
>
>Then you just contend the lock and get woken when you obtain?
>
>> - in later patch, page_cgroup can be on pagevec(i added) and we have to dr
ain
>> it to remove from LRU.
>
>Then unlock, drain, lock, no need to sleep some arbitrary amount of time
>[0-inf).
>
>> In above situation, force_empty() have to wait for some event proceeds.
>>
>> Hmm...detecting busy situation in loop and sleep in out-side-of-loop
>> is better ? Anyway, ok, I'll rewrite this.
>
>The better solution is to wait for events in a non-polling fashion, for
>example by using wait_event().
>
Hmm,
spin_unlock -> wait_on_page_locked() -> break loop or spin_lock and retry
will be a candidates. I'll see how it looks.

>yield() might not actually wait at all, suppose you're the highest
>priority FIFO task on the system - if you used yield and rely on someone
>else to run you'll deadlock.
>
Oh, I missed that. ok. yield() here is bad.

>Also, depending on sysctl_sched_compat_yield, SCHED_OTHER tasks using
>yield() can behave radically different.
>
>> BTW, sched.c::yield() is for what purpose now ?
>
>There are some (lagacy) users of yield, sadly they are all incorrect,
>but removing them is non-trivial for various reasons.
>
>The -rt kernel has 2 sites where yield() is the correct thing to do. In
>both cases its where 2 SCHED_FIFO-99 tasks (migration and stop_machine)
>depend on each-other.
>

Thank you for kindly advices. I'll rewrite.

Regards,
-Kame