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Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:16:43 +0900
From:	Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Barrett <damentz@...uorix.net>,
	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] memcg: move memcg reclaimable page into tail of
 inactive list

2011/2/18 Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>:
> Hi Kame,
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:04 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:08:20 +0900
>> Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The rotate_reclaimable_page function moves just written out
>>> pages, which the VM wanted to reclaim, to the end of the
>>> inactive list.  That way the VM will find those pages first
>>> next time it needs to free memory.
>>> This patch apply the rule in memcg.
>>> It can help to prevent unnecessary working page eviction of memcg.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
>>> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>> Changelog since v4:
>>>  - add acked-by and reviewed-by
>>>  - change description - suggested by Rik
>>>
>>>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |    6 ++++++
>>>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  mm/swap.c                  |    3 ++-
>>>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>>> index 3da48ae..5a5ce70 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>>> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ extern int mem_cgroup_cache_charge(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
>>>                                       gfp_t gfp_mask);
>>>  extern void mem_cgroup_add_lru_list(struct page *page, enum lru_list lru);
>>>  extern void mem_cgroup_del_lru_list(struct page *page, enum lru_list lru);
>>> +extern void mem_cgroup_rotate_reclaimable_page(struct page *page);
>>>  extern void mem_cgroup_rotate_lru_list(struct page *page, enum lru_list lru);
>>>  extern void mem_cgroup_del_lru(struct page *page);
>>>  extern void mem_cgroup_move_lists(struct page *page,
>>> @@ -215,6 +216,11 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_del_lru_list(struct page *page, int lru)
>>>       return ;
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +static inline inline void mem_cgroup_rotate_reclaimable_page(struct page *page)
>>> +{
>>> +     return ;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  static inline void mem_cgroup_rotate_lru_list(struct page *page, int lru)
>>>  {
>>>       return ;
>>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> index 686f1ce..ab8bdff 100644
>>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> @@ -813,6 +813,33 @@ void mem_cgroup_del_lru(struct page *page)
>>>       mem_cgroup_del_lru_list(page, page_lru(page));
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * Writeback is about to end against a page which has been marked for immediate
>>> + * reclaim.  If it still appears to be reclaimable, move it to the tail of the
>>> + * inactive list.
>>> + */
>>> +void mem_cgroup_rotate_reclaimable_page(struct page *page)
>>> +{
>>> +     struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz;
>>> +     struct page_cgroup *pc;
>>> +     enum lru_list lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
>>> +
>>> +     if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
>>> +             return;
>>> +
>>> +     pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
>>> +     /*
>>> +      * Used bit is set without atomic ops but after smp_wmb().
>>> +      * For making pc->mem_cgroup visible, insert smp_rmb() here.
>>> +      */
>>> +     smp_rmb();
>>> +     /* unused or root page is not rotated. */
>>> +     if (!PageCgroupUsed(pc) || mem_cgroup_is_root(pc->mem_cgroup))
>>> +             return;
>>> +     mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc->mem_cgroup, page);
>>> +     list_move_tail(&pc->lru, &mz->lists[lru]);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>
>> Hmm, I'm sorry I misunderstand this. IIUC, page_lru_base_type() always returns
>> LRU_INACTIVE_XXX and this function may move page from active LRU to inactive LRU.
>>
>> Then, LRU counters for memcg should be updated.
>
> Goal of mem_cgroup_rotate_reclaimable_page is same with rotate_reclaimable_page.
> It means the page was already in inactive list.
> Look at the check !PageActive(page).

Hmm, ok. If so, could you change

page_lru_base_type() -> page_lru() ?

It's misleading.

Thanks,
-Kame
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