linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: add file_thp, shmem

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Message-ID: <CALvZod7SOpaVcmVZDTw-UeVo3Jx=VfojBzO5f7k5ATPXeN7K+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:51:01 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: add file_thp, shmem_thp to memory.stat

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:20 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
>
> As huge page usage in the page cache and for shmem files proliferates
> in our production environment, the performance monitoring team has
> asked for per-cgroup stats on those pages.
>
> We already track and export anon_thp per cgroup. We already track file
> THP and shmem THP per node, so making them per-cgroup is only a matter
> of switching from node to lruvec counters. All callsites are in places
> where the pages are charged and locked, so page->memcg is stable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>