linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] dirty balancing for cgroups

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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:58:56 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	yamamoto@...inux.co.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
Cc:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, linux-mm@...ck.org, menage@...gle.com,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] dirty balancing for cgroups

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:15:05 +0900 (JST)
yamamoto@...inux.co.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:

> hi,
> 
> > > @@ -485,7 +502,10 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
> > >  		if (PageUnevictable(page) ||
> > >  		    (PageActive(page) && !active) ||
> > >  		    (!PageActive(page) && active)) {
> > > -			__mem_cgroup_move_lists(pc, page_lru(page));
> > > +			if (try_lock_page_cgroup(page)) {
> > > +				__mem_cgroup_move_lists(pc, page_lru(page));
> > > +				unlock_page_cgroup(page);
> > > +			}
> > >  			continue;
> > >  		}
> > 
> > This chunk seems unrelated and lost....
> 
> it's necessary to protect from mem_cgroup_{set,clear}_dirty
> which modify pc->flags without holding mz->lru_lock.
> 

I'm now writing a patch to make page_cgroup->flags to be atomic_ops.
Don't worry about this.
(With remove-page-lock-cgroup patch, atomic_ops patch's performace is
 quite well.)

Thanks,
-Kame

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