linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:43:58 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag

On Thu 19-01-12 18:17:11, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> This patch is onto memcg-devel, can be applied to linux-next, too.

Just for record memcg-devel tree should _always_ be compatible with
linux-next. It just contains patches which are memcg related to be more
stable for memcg specific development.

> 
> ==
> From 529653c266b0682894d64e4797fcaf6a3c35db25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:09:41 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] memcg: remove PCG_CACHE
> 
> We record 'the page is cache' by PCG_CACHE bit to page_cgroup.
> Here, "CACHE" means anonymous user pages (and SwapCache). This
> doesn't include shmem.

> Consdering callers, at charge/uncharge, the caller should know
> what  the page is and we don't need to record it by using 1bit
> per page.
> 
> This patch removes PCG_CACHE bit and make callers of
> mem_cgroup_charge_statistics() to specify what the page is.
> 
> Changelog since RFC.
>  - rebased onto memcg-devel
>  - rename 'file' to 'not_rss'

The name is confusing.

Other than that the patch looks reasonable. Minor comment bellow:

>  - some cleanup and added comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/page_cgroup.h |    8 +-----
>  mm/memcontrol.c             |   55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index fb2dfc3..de7721d 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
[...]
> @@ -2908,9 +2915,15 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page)
>  
>  void mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(struct page *page)
>  {
> +	int ctype;
> +
>  	VM_BUG_ON(page_mapped(page));
>  	VM_BUG_ON(page->mapping);
> -	__mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(page, MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_CACHE);
> +	if (page_is_file_cache(page))
> +		ctype = MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_CACHE;
> +	else
> +		ctype = MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_SHMEM;
> +	__mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(page, ctype);

OK, this makes sense but doesn't make any real difference now, so it is
more a clean up, right?

Thanks
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9    
Czech Republic
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