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

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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:47:54 +0200
From:	Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>
To:	Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@...inux.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] cgroup: block device i/o controller (v9)

Hirokazu Takahashi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 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
> 
> FYI, this also can be done with bio-cgroup, which determine the owner cgroup
> of a given anonymous page.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hirokazu Takahashi

That would be great! FYI here is how I would like to proceed:

- today I'll post a new version of my cgroup-io-throttle patch rebased
  to 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 (it's well tested and seems to be stable enough).
  To keep the things light and simpler I've implemented custom
  get_cgroup_from_page() / put_cgroup_from_page() in the memory
  controller to retrieve the owner of a page, holding a reference to the
  corresponding memcg, during async writes in submit_bio(); this is not
  probably the best way to proceed, and a more generic framework like
  bio-cgroup sounds better, but it seems to work quite well. The only
  problem I've found is that during swap_writepage() the page is not
  assigned to any page_cgroup (page_get_page_cgroup() returns NULL), and
  so I'm not able to charge the cost of this I/O operation to the right
  cgroup. Does bio-cgroup address or even resolve this issue?
- begin to implement a new branch of cgroup-io-throttle on top of
  bio-cgroup
- also start to implement an additional request queue to provide first a
  control at the cgroup level and a dispatcher to pass the request to
  the elevator (as suggested by Vivek)

Thanks,
-Andrea
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