linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] cgroup: block device i/o controller (v9)

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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:42:21 +0200
From:	Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>
To:	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp>
CC:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, agk@...rceware.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, axboe@...nel.dk, baramsori72@...il.com,
	Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@...g.uio.no>,
	dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Divyesh Shah <dpshah@...gle.com>,
	eric.rannaud@...il.com, fernando@....ntt.co.jp,
	Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@...inux.co.jp>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Marco Innocenti <m.innocenti@...eca.it>, matt@...ehost.com,
	ngupta@...gle.com, randy.dunlap@...cle.com, roberto@...it.it,
	Ryo Tsuruta <ryov@...inux.co.jp>,
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	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] cgroup: block device i/o controller (v9)

Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andrea Righi wrote:
>> TODO:
>>
>> * Try to push down the throttling and implement it directly in the I/O
>>   schedulers, using bio-cgroup (http://people.valinux.co.jp/~ryov/bio-cgroup/)
>>   to keep track of the right cgroup context. This approach could lead to more
>>   memory consumption and increases the number of dirty pages (hard/slow to
>>   reclaim pages) in the system, since dirty-page ratio in memory is not
>>   limited. This could even lead to potential OOM conditions, but these problems
>>   can be resolved directly into the memory cgroup subsystem
>>
>> * Handle I/O generated by kswapd: at the moment there's no control on the I/O
>>   generated by kswapd; try to use the page_cgroup functionality of the memory
>>   cgroup controller to track this kind of I/O and charge the right cgroup when
>>   pages are swapped in/out
> 
> Could you explain which cgroup we should charge when swap in or out occurs?

IMHO we should charge the owner of the page being swapped in/out (not
kswapd I mean). If a task is using a lot of memory and the memory of
this task is swapped out, it's actually generating i/o. Yes, we could
also hit other tasks that are using few pages in this way, but the most
memory consuming guys should be charged proportionally to the memory
they're consuming. IOW, this kind of i/o activity should be charge to the
cgroup the task belongs to.

-Andrea
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