linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] Per-container pages reclamation

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Message-ID: <462DDD1E.8080306@sw.ru>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:06 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
	Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@...ibm.com>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Per-container pages reclamation

Balbir Singh wrote:
> Pavel Emelianov wrote:
>> Implement try_to_free_pages_in_container() to free the
>> pages in container that has run out of memory.
>>
>> The scan_control->isolate_pages() function isolates the
>> container pages only.
>>
> 
> Pavel,
> 
> I've just started playing around with these patches, I preferred
> the approach of v1. Please see below
> 
>> +static unsigned long isolate_container_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
>> +        struct list_head *src, struct list_head *dst,
>> +        unsigned long *scanned, struct zone *zone)
>> +{
>> +    unsigned long nr_taken = 0;
>> +    struct page *page;
>> +    struct page_container *pc;
>> +    unsigned long scan;
>> +    LIST_HEAD(pc_list);
>> +
>> +    for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++) {
>> +        pc = list_entry(src->prev, struct page_container, list);
>> +        page = pc->page;
>> +        if (page_zone(page) != zone)
>> +            continue;
> 
> shrink_zone() will walk all pages looking for pages belonging to this

No. shrink_zone() will walk container pages looking for pages in the desired zone.
Scann through the full zone is done on global memory shortage.

> container and this slows down the reclaim quite a bit. Although we've
> reused code, we've ended up walking the entire list of the zone to
> find pages belonging to a particular container, this was the same
> problem I had with my RSS controller patches.
> 
>> +
>> +        list_move(&pc->list, &pc_list);
>> +
> 
> 

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