linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: memcontrol: clean up the LRU counts tracking

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Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:42:41 +0000
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: memcontrol: clean up the LRU counts tracking

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:30:14AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> [ Resend #2: Sorry about the spam, I mixed up the header fields in
>   git-send-email and I don't know who did and didn't receive the
>   garbled previous attempt.
> 
>   Resend #1: Rebased on top of the latest mmots. ]
> 
> The memcg LRU stats usage is currently a bit messy. Memcg has private
> per-zone counters because reclaim needs zone granularity sometimes,
> but we also have plenty of users that need to awkwardly sum them up to
> node or memcg granularity. Meanwhile the canonical per-memcg vmstats
> do not track the LRU counts (NR_INACTIVE_ANON etc.) as you'd expect.
> 
> This series enables LRU count tracking in the per-memcg vmstats array
> such that lruvec_page_state() and memcg_page_state() work on the enum
> node_stat_item items for the LRU counters. Then it converts all the
> callers that don't specifically need per-zone numbers over to that.
> 
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 28 ---------------
>  include/linux/mm_inline.h  |  2 +-
>  include/linux/mmzone.h     |  5 ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  mm/vmscan.c                |  2 +-
>  mm/workingset.c            |  5 +--
>  6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> 
> 


The patchset looks very good to me!

Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Thanks!