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From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, mgorman@suse.de,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, dhillf@gmail.com,
	aarcange@redhat.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:38:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306023809.GF12818@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwdodyr0.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 11:39:23PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:28:53 +1100, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 02:40:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu,  1 Mar 2012 14:46:11 +0530
> > > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This patchset implements a memory controller extension to control
> > > > HugeTLB allocations. It is similar to the existing hugetlb quota
> > > > support in that, the limit is enforced at mmap(2) time and not at
> > > > fault time. HugeTLB's quota mechanism limits the number of huge pages
> > > > that can allocated per superblock.
> > > > 
> > > > For shared mappings we track the regions mapped by a task along with the
> > > > memcg. We keep the memory controller charged even after the task
> > > > that did mmap(2) exits. Uncharge happens during truncate. For Private
> > > > mappings we charge and uncharge from the current task cgroup.
> > > 
> > > I haven't begin to get my head around this yet, but I'd like to draw
> > > your attention to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/15/548.  That fix has
> > > been hanging around for a while, but I haven't done anything with it
> > > yet because I don't like its additional blurring of the separation
> > > between hugetlb core code and hugetlbfs.  I want to find time to sit
> > > down and see if the fix can be better architected but haven't got
> > > around to that yet.
> > 
> > So.. that version of the fix I specifically rebuilt to address your
> > concerns about that blurring - in fact I think it reduces the current
> > layer blurring.  I haven't had any reply - what problems do see it as
> > still having?
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/16/179 ?

Ah.  Missed that reply somehow.  Odd.  Replied now and I'll respin
accordingly.

> That is a serious issue isn't it ?

Yes, it is.  And it's been around for a long, long time.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-06  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-01  9:16 [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 1/9] mm: move hugetlbfs region tracking function to common code Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 22:33   ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-04 17:37     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 2/9] mm: Update region function to take new data arg Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 3/9] hugetlbfs: Use the generic region API and drop local one Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 4/9] memcg: Add non reclaim resource tracking to memcg Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-02  8:38   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04 18:07     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-08  5:56       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-08 11:48         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 5/9] hugetlbfs: Add memory controller support for shared mapping Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 6/9] hugetlbfs: Add memory controller support for private mapping Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-17 23:16   ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 7/9] memcg: track resource index in cftype private Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 8/9] hugetlbfs: Add memcg control files for hugetlbfs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01  9:16 ` [PATCH -V2 9/9] memcg: Add memory controller documentation for hugetlb management Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-01 22:40 ` [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking Andrew Morton
2012-03-02  3:28   ` David Gibson
2012-03-04 18:09     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-06  2:38       ` David Gibson [this message]
2012-03-04 19:15   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-05 13:56     ` Hillf Danton
2012-03-06 14:05       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-02  5:48 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04 18:14   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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