[PATCH v2] memcg: reduce lock time at move charge (Was Re: [PATCH 04/10] memcg: disable local interrupts in lock_page_cgroup()

[Balbir Singh]

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-10-08 19:41:31]:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:12:01 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > Sure.  It walks the same data three times, potentially causing
> > > thrashing in the L1 cache.
> > 
> > Hmm, make this 2 times, at least.
> > 
> How about this ?
> ==
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Presently, at task migration among cgroups, memory cgroup scans page tables and
> moves accounting if flags are properly set.
> 
> 
> The core code, mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range() does
> 
>  	pte_offset_map_lock();
> 	for all ptes in a page table:
> 		1. look into page table, find_and_get a page
> 		2. remove it from LRU.
> 		3. move charge.
> 		4. putback to LRU. put_page()
> 	pte_offset_map_unlock();
> 
> for pte entries on a 3rd level? page table.
> 
> As a planned updates, we'll support dirty-page accounting. Because move_charge()
> is highly race, we need to add more check in move_charge.
> For example, lock_page();-> wait_on_page_writeback();-> unlock_page();
> is an candidate for new check.
>


Is this a change to help dirty limits or is it a generic bug fix.
 
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