Re: [PATCH -mmotm 1/5] memcg: disable irq at page cgroup lock

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On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:28:55 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-03-15 00:26:38]:
> 
> > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Now, file-mapped is maintaiend. But more generic update function
> > will be needed for dirty page accounting.
> > 
> > For accountig page status, we have to guarantee lock_page_cgroup()
> > will be never called under tree_lock held.
> > To guarantee that, we use trylock at updating status.
> > By this, we do fuzzy accounting, but in almost all case, it's correct.
> >
> 
> I don't like this at all, but in almost all cases is not acceptable
> for statistics, since decisions will be made on them and having them
> incorrect is really bad. Could we do a form of deferred statistics and
> fix this.
> 

plz show your implementation which has no performance regresssion.
For me, I don't neee file_mapped accounting, at all. If we can remove that,
we can add simple migration lock.
file_mapped is a feattue you added. please improve it.


Thanks,
-Kame

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