Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] memcg: provide root figures from system totals

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(2013/03/05 22:10), Glauber Costa wrote:
> For the root memcg, there is no need to rely on the res_counters if hierarchy
> is enabled The sum of all mem cgroups plus the tasks in root itself, is
> necessarily the amount of memory used for the whole system. Since those figures
> are already kept somewhere anyway, we can just return them here, without too
> much hassle.
> 
> Limit and soft limit can't be set for the root cgroup, so they are left at
> RESOURCE_MAX. Failcnt is left at 0, because its actual meaning is how many
> times we failed allocations due to the limit being hit. We will fail
> allocations in the root cgroup, but the limit will never the reason.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think this patch's calculation is wrong.

> ---
>   mm/memcontrol.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index b8b363f..bfbf1c2 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4996,6 +4996,56 @@ static inline u64 mem_cgroup_usage(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool swap)
>   	return val << PAGE_SHIFT;
>   }
>   
> +static u64 memcg_read_root_rss(void)
> +{
> +	struct task_struct *p;
> +
> +	u64 rss = 0;
> +	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	for_each_process(p) {
> +		if (!p->mm)
> +			continue;
> +		task_lock(p);
> +		rss += get_mm_rss(p->mm);
> +		task_unlock(p);
> +	}
> +	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +	return rss;
> +}

I think you can use rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock.
Isn't it enough to use NR_ANON_LRU rather than this ?

> +
> +static u64 mem_cgroup_read_root(enum res_type type, int name)
> +{
> +	if (name == RES_LIMIT)
> +		return RESOURCE_MAX;
> +	if (name == RES_SOFT_LIMIT)
> +		return RESOURCE_MAX;
> +	if (name == RES_FAILCNT)
> +		return 0;
> +	if (name == RES_MAX_USAGE)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(name != RES_USAGE))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	switch (type) {
> +	case _MEM:
> +		return (memcg_read_root_rss() +
> +		atomic_long_read(&vm_stat[NR_FILE_PAGES])) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	case _MEMSWAP: {
> +		struct sysinfo i;
> +		si_swapinfo(&i);
> +
> +		return ((memcg_read_root_rss() +
> +		atomic_long_read(&vm_stat[NR_FILE_PAGES])) << PAGE_SHIFT) +
> +		i.totalswap - i.freeswap;

How swapcache is handled ? ...and How kmem works with this calc ?

Thanks,
-Kame

> +	}
> +	case _KMEM:
> +		return 0;
> +	default:
> +		BUG();
> +	};
> +}
> +
>   static ssize_t mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
>   			       struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>   			       size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos)
> @@ -5012,6 +5062,19 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
>   	if (!do_swap_account && type == _MEMSWAP)
>   		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * If we have root-level hierarchy, we can be certain that the charges
> +	 * in root are always global. We can then bypass the root cgroup
> +	 * entirely in this case, hopefuly leading to less contention in the
> +	 * root res_counters. The charges presented after reading it will
> +	 * always be the global charges.
> +	 */
> +	if (mem_cgroup_disabled() ||
> +		(mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) && memcg->use_hierarchy)) {
> +		val = mem_cgroup_read_root(type, name);
> +		goto root_bypass;
> +	}
> +
>   	switch (type) {
>   	case _MEM:
>   		if (name == RES_USAGE)
> @@ -5032,6 +5095,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
>   		BUG();
>   	}
>   
> +root_bypass:
>   	len = scnprintf(str, sizeof(str), "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)val);
>   	return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, nbytes, ppos, str, len);
>   }
> 


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