Vivek Goyal wrote, on 07/27/2010 11:13 PM:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:44:02AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:39:04 -0400
Vivek Goyal<vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:56:29PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Now, addresses of memory cgroup can be calculated by their ID without complex.
This patch relplaces pc->mem_cgroup from a pointer to a unsigned short.
On 64bit architecture, this offers us more 6bytes room per page_cgroup.
Use 2bytes for blkio-cgroup's page tracking. More 4bytes will be used for
some light-weight concurrent access.
We may able to move this id onto flags field but ...go step by step.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/page_cgroup.h | 3 ++-
mm/memcontrol.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
mm/page_cgroup.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
Index: mmotm-0719/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
===================================================================
--- mmotm-0719.orig/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
+++ mmotm-0719/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
*/
struct page_cgroup {
unsigned long flags;
- struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
+ unsigned short mem_cgroup; /* ID of assigned memory cgroup */
+ unsigned short blk_cgroup; /* Not Used..but will be. */
So later I shall have to use virtually indexed arrays in blkio controller?
Or you are just using virtually indexed arrays for lookup speed and
I can continue to use css_lookup() and not worry about using virtually
indexed arrays.
yes. you can use css_lookup() even if it's slow.
Ok.
So the idea is that when a page is allocated, also store the blk_group
id and once that page is submitted for writeback, we should be able
to associate it to right blkio group?
blk_cgroup id can be attached whenever you wants. please overwrite
page_cgroup->blk_cgroup when it's necessary.
Did you read Ikeda's patch ? I myself doesn't have patches at this point.
This is just for make a room for recording blkio-ID, which was requested
for a year.
I have not read his patches yet. IIRC, previously there were issues
regarding which group should be charged for the page. The person who
allocated it or the thread which did last write to it etc... I guess
we can sort that out later.
Absolutely.
iotrack, a part of blkio cgroup for async write patch I posted, charges
the thread (in exact, blkio-cgroup to which the thread belongs) which
dirtied the page first. Though it should be controversial and we need
to discuss who should be charged, adding pc->blk_cgroup has no problem
because blkio-cgroup can overwrite it any time, as Kame said above.
Beyond that, adding pc->blk_cgroup is a big step for us. Now I encode
and store ID in pc->flags. pc->blk_cgroup is more straight and that
is what we have been looking forward. Thanks Kame!
--
IKEDA, Munehiro
NEC Corporation of America
m-ikeda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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