Re: [PATCH 2/2] memcg: use memcg flush tracepoint

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 05:57:25PM GMT, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 5:26 PM JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Make use of the flush tracepoint within memcontrol.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Is the intention to use tools like bpftrace to analyze where we flush
> the most? In this case, why can't we just attach to the fentry of
> do_flush_stats() and use the stack trace to find the path?
> 
> We can also attach to mem_cgroup_flush_stats(), and the difference in
> counts between the two will be the number of skipped flushes.
> 

All these functions can get inlined and then we can not really attach
easily. We can somehow find the offset in the inlined places and try to
use kprobe but it is prohibitive when have to do for multiple kernels
built with fdo/bolt.

Please note that tracepoints are not really API, so we can remove them
in future if we see no usage for them.

Thanks for the review,
Shakeel




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