Re: [PATCH 3/6] memcg: track shared inodes with dirty pages

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:49:14PM +0300, Konstantin Khebnikov wrote:
>> From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Inode is owned only by one memory cgroup, but if it's shared it might
>> contain pages from multiple cgroups. This patch detects this situation
>> in memory reclaiemer and marks dirty inode with flag I_DIRTY_SHARED
>> which is cleared only when data is completely written. Memcg writeback
>> always writes such inodes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This conflicts with the writeback cgroup support patchset which will
> solve the writeback and memcg problem a lot more comprehensively.
>
>  http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1420579582-8516-1-git-send-email-tj@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks.

I know. Absolutely accurate per-page solution looks too complicated for me.
Is there any real demand for accurate handling dirty set in shared inodes?
Doing whole accounting in per-inode basis makes life so much easier.

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> tejun
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