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author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-01-07 21:08:01 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-08 11:31:05 -0500 |
commit | 08e552c69c6930d64722de3ec18c51844d06ee28 (patch) | |
tree | a744d57ed4b23401115f1033dcaac9e85d550e09 /fs | |
parent | 8c7c6e34a1256a5082d38c8e9bd1474476912715 (diff) |
memcg: synchronized LRU
A big patch for changing memcg's LRU semantics.
Now,
- page_cgroup is linked to mem_cgroup's its own LRU (per zone).
- LRU of page_cgroup is not synchronous with global LRU.
- page and page_cgroup is one-to-one and statically allocated.
- To find page_cgroup is on what LRU, you have to check pc->mem_cgroup as
- lru = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc, nid_of_pc, zid_of_pc);
- SwapCache is handled.
And, when we handle LRU list of page_cgroup, we do following.
pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
lock_page_cgroup(pc); .....................(1)
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
spin_lock(&mz->lru_lock);
.....add to LRU
spin_unlock(&mz->lru_lock);
unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
But (1) is spin_lock and we have to be afraid of dead-lock with zone->lru_lock.
So, trylock() is used at (1), now. Without (1), we can't trust "mz" is correct.
This is a trial to remove this dirty nesting of locks.
This patch changes mz->lru_lock to be zone->lru_lock.
Then, above sequence will be written as
spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU
mem_cgroup_add/remove/etc_lru() {
pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
....add to LRU
}
spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU
This is much simpler.
(*) We're safe even if we don't take lock_page_cgroup(pc). Because..
1. When pc->mem_cgroup can be modified.
- at charge.
- at account_move().
2. at charge
the PCG_USED bit is not set before pc->mem_cgroup is fixed.
3. at account_move()
the page is isolated and not on LRU.
Pros.
- easy for maintenance.
- memcg can make use of laziness of pagevec.
- we don't have to duplicated LRU/Active/Unevictable bit in page_cgroup.
- LRU status of memcg will be synchronized with global LRU's one.
- # of locks are reduced.
- account_move() is simplified very much.
Cons.
- may increase cost of LRU rotation.
(no impact if memcg is not configured.)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/splice.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 1abab5cee4ba..a54b3e3f10a7 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c | |||
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ | |||
21 | #include <linux/file.h> | 21 | #include <linux/file.h> |
22 | #include <linux/pagemap.h> | 22 | #include <linux/pagemap.h> |
23 | #include <linux/splice.h> | 23 | #include <linux/splice.h> |
24 | #include <linux/memcontrol.h> | ||
24 | #include <linux/mm_inline.h> | 25 | #include <linux/mm_inline.h> |
25 | #include <linux/swap.h> | 26 | #include <linux/swap.h> |
26 | #include <linux/writeback.h> | 27 | #include <linux/writeback.h> |