linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 09/13] memcg: create support routines for writeback

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:13:04 +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,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea@...terlinux.com>,
	Ciju Rajan K <ciju@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 09/13] memcg: create support routines for writeback

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:15:01 -0700
Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com> wrote:

> Introduce memcg routines to assist in per-memcg writeback:
> 
> - mem_cgroups_over_bground_dirty_thresh() determines if any cgroups need
>   writeback because they are over their dirty memory threshold.
> 
> - should_writeback_mem_cgroup_inode() will be called by writeback to
>   determine if a particular inode should be written back.  The answer
>   depends on the writeback context (foreground, background,
>   try_to_free_pages, etc.).
> 
> - mem_cgroup_writeback_done() is used periodically during writeback to
>   update memcg writeback data.
> 
> These routines make use of a new over_bground_dirty_thresh bitmap that
> indicates which mem_cgroup are over their respective dirty background
> threshold.  As this bitmap is indexed by css_id, the largest possible
> css_id value is needed to create the bitmap.  So move the definition of
> CSS_ID_MAX from cgroup.c to cgroup.h.  This allows users of css_id() to
> know the largest possible css_id value.  This knowledge can be used to
> build such per-cgroup bitmaps.
> 
> Make determine_dirtyable_memory() non-static because it is needed by
> mem_cgroup_writeback_done().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>

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




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