From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B245F0001 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 03:52:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d28relay02.in.ibm.com (d28relay02.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.59]) by e28smtp07.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n387rbH1023318 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:23:37 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (d28av05.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.67]) by d28relay02.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n387nkYs4284506 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:19:46 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av05.in.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n387raWx031665 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:53:37 +1000 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:22:40 +0530 From: Dhaval Giani Subject: Re: [RFI] Shared accounting for memory resource controller Message-ID: <20090408075240.GA16028@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: Dhaval Giani References: <20090407172419.a5f318b9.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090408052904.GY7082@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20090408151529.fd6626c2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090408070401.GC7082@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20090408160733.4813cb8d.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090408071115.GD7082@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20090408161824.26f47077.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <344eb09a0904080031y4406c001n584725b87024755@mail.gmail.com> <20090408163440.4442dc3c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <344eb09a0904080045s94c792dmc2250aaf39c09222@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <344eb09a0904080045s94c792dmc2250aaf39c09222@mail.gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Bharata B Rao Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andrew Morton , "lizf@cn.fujitsu.com" , Rik van Riel , Bharata B Rao , KOSAKI Motohiro , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" List-ID: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:15:01PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:01:15 +0530 > > Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:48 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:41:15 +0530 > >> > Balbir Singh wrote: > >> > > 3. Using the above, we can then try to (using an algorithm you > >> > > proposed), try to do some work for figuring out the shared percentage. > >> > > > >> > This is the point. At last. Why "# of shared pages" is important ? > >> > > >> > I wonder it's better to add new stat file as memory.cacheinfo which helps > >> > following kind of commands. > >> > > >> > #cacheinfo /cgroups/memory/group01/ > >> > /usr/lib/libc.so.1 30pages > >> > /var/log/messages 1 pages > >> > /tmp/xxxxxx 20 pages > >> > >> Can I suggest that we don't add new files for additional stats and try > >> as far as possible to include them in .stat file. Please > >> note that we have APIs in libcgroup library which can return > >> statistics from controllers associated with a cgroup and these APIs > >> assume that stats are part of .stat file. > >> > > Hmm ? Is there generic assumption as all cgroup has "stat" file ? > > No. But I would think if any controller has any stats to export, it > would do so via .stat file. > > > And libcgroup cause bug if the new entry is added to stat file ? > > No. It can cope with new entries being added to stat file as long as > they appear as (name, value) pairs. > And if it does not, we should fix it to cope up with it. But I agree with bharata, we should avoid adding new files, and try to use the stat file. thanks, -- regards, Dhaval -- 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