linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/19 V2] mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 21:04:53 +1000
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19 V2] mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on
 instantiation



On 13/5/20 10:35 pm, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> As a result, the memcg gets a breakdown for memory.stat without having
> to have private knowledge of what a page cache page is - how to test
> it, when it's safe to test it, whether there can be huge pages in the
> page cache, etc. pp. Memcg can focus on counting bytes, and the VM
> code that is specialized in dealing with the page cache (or anon
> pages, or shmem pages) can fill in those kinds of details for us.
> 
> Less dependencies, less duplication, simpler API rules.
> 
> The memory.stat output is the same, it's just much simpler code.

Makes sense! Thanks, I should spend some time to re-read all of the memcontrol.c code :)

Balbir Singh.