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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/9] blkio-cgroup-v9: The new page_cgroup framewo

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:26:36 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Ryo Tsuruta <ryov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-07-21 23:12:11]:
> 
> > This patch makes the page_cgroup framework be able to be used even if
> > the compile option of the cgroup memory controller is off.
> > So blkio-cgroup can use this framework without the memory controller.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ryo Tsuruta <ryov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  include/linux/memcontrol.h  |    6 ++++++
> >  include/linux/mmzone.h      |    4 ++--
> >  include/linux/page_cgroup.h |    8 +++++---
> >  init/Kconfig                |    4 ++++
> >  mm/Makefile                 |    3 ++-
> >  mm/memcontrol.c             |    6 ++++++
> >  mm/page_cgroup.c            |    3 +--
> >  7 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.31-rc3/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.31-rc3.orig/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > +++ linux-2.6.31-rc3/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct mm_struct;
> >   * (Of course, if memcg does memory allocation in future, GFP_KERNEL is 
> > sane.)
> >   */
> > 
> > +extern void __init_mem_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc);
> > +
> >  extern int mem_cgroup_newpage_charge(struct page *page, struct mm_struct 
> > *mm,
> >                             gfp_t gfp_mask);
> >  /* for swap handling */
> > @@ -121,6 +123,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_mapped_file_stat(
> >  #else /* CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR */
> >  struct mem_cgroup;
> > 
> > +static inline void __init_mem_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> >  static inline int mem_cgroup_newpage_charge(struct page *page,
> >                                     struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> >  {
> > Index: linux-2.6.31-rc3/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.31-rc3.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > +++ linux-2.6.31-rc3/include/linux/mmzone.h
> > @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
> >     int nr_zones;
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP    /* means !SPARSEMEM */
> >     struct page *node_mem_map;
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_PAGE
> >     struct page_cgroup *node_page_cgroup;
> >  #endif
> >  #endif
> > @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ struct mem_section {
> > 
> >     /* See declaration of similar field in struct zone */
> >     unsigned long *pageblock_flags;
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_PAGE
> >     /*
> >      * If !SPARSEMEM, pgdat doesn't have page_cgroup pointer. We use
> >      * section. (see memcontrol.h/page_cgroup.h about this.)
> > Index: linux-2.6.31-rc3/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.31-rc3.orig/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> > +++ linux-2.6.31-rc3/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  #ifndef __LINUX_PAGE_CGROUP_H
> >  #define __LINUX_PAGE_CGROUP_H
> > 
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_PAGE
> >  #include <linux/bit_spinlock.h>
> >  /*
> >   * Page Cgroup can be considered as an extended mem_map.
> > @@ -12,9 +12,11 @@
> >   */
> >  struct page_cgroup {
> >     unsigned long flags;
> > -   struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
> >     struct page *page;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> > +   struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
> >     struct list_head lru;           /* per cgroup LRU list */
> > +#endif
> >  };
> 
> If CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR is not enabled and CGROUP_PAGE is
> (assuming that the depends on below is refactored), what would this
> change buy us? What is page_cgroup helping us track, the mem_cgroup is
> factored out, so we are interested in the flags only?
> 
plz remove CONFIG. This jsut makes code complicated.
or plz use your own infrastructure, not depends on page_cgroup.

Thanks,
-Kame


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