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Message-ID: <20120229002743.GA11583@localhost>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:27:43 +0800
From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Andrea Righi <andrea@...terlinux.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] memcg: add dirty page accounting infrastructure
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:37:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:00:24 +0800
> Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
> >
> > Add memcg routines to count dirty, writeback, and unstable_NFS pages.
> > These routines are not yet used by the kernel to count such pages. A
> > later change adds kernel calls to these new routines.
> >
> > As inode pages are marked dirty, if the dirtied page's cgroup differs
> > from the inode's cgroup, then mark the inode shared across several
> > cgroup.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > @@ -1885,6 +1888,44 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct
> > ClearPageCgroupFileMapped(pc);
> > idx = MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED;
> > break;
> > +
> > + case MEMCG_NR_FILE_DIRTY:
> > + /* Use Test{Set,Clear} to only un/charge the memcg once. */
> > + if (val > 0) {
> > + if (TestSetPageCgroupFileDirty(pc))
> > + val = 0;
> > + } else {
> > + if (!TestClearPageCgroupFileDirty(pc))
> > + val = 0;
> > + }
>
> Made me scratch my head for a while, but I see now that the `val' arg
> to (the undocumented) mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() can only ever have
> the values 1 or -1. I hope.
Yeah, I see it's called this way:
3 151 /c/linux/include/linux/memcontrol.h <<mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat>>
mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(page, idx, 1);
4 157 /c/linux/include/linux/memcontrol.h <<mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat>>
mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(page, idx, -1);
Thanks,
Fengguang
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