linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 11/12] writeback: make background writeback cgroup aware

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:56:34 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@...eler.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Ciju Rajan K <ciju@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/12] writeback: make background writeback cgroup
 aware

On Fri,  3 Jun 2011 09:12:17 -0700
Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com> wrote:

> When the system is under background dirty memory threshold but a cgroup
> is over its background dirty memory threshold, then only writeback
> inodes associated with the over-limit cgroup(s).
> 
> In addition to checking if the system dirty memory usage is over the
> system background threshold, over_bground_thresh() also checks if any
> cgroups are over their respective background dirty memory thresholds.
> The writeback_control.for_cgroup field is set to distinguish between a
> system and memcg overage.
> 
> If performing cgroup writeback, move_expired_inodes() skips inodes that
> do not contribute dirty pages to the cgroup being written back.
> 
> After writing some pages, wb_writeback() will call
> mem_cgroup_writeback_done() to update the set of over-bg-limits memcg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>



> ---
> Changelog since v7:
> - over_bground_thresh() now sets shared_inodes=1.  In -v7 per memcg
>   background writeback did not, so it did not write pages of shared
>   inodes in background writeback.  In the (potentially common) case
>   where the system dirty memory usage is below the system background
>   dirty threshold but at least one cgroup is over its background dirty
>   limit, then per memcg background writeback is queued for any
>   over-background-threshold cgroups.  Background writeback should be
>   allowed to writeback shared inodes.  The hope is that writing such
>   inodes has good chance of cleaning the inodes so they can transition
>   from shared to non-shared.  Such a transition is good because then the
>   inode will remain unshared until it is written by multiple cgroup.
>   Non-shared inodes offer better isolation.

If you post v9,  please adds above explanation as the comments in the code.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

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