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Re: [PATCH 6/6 mm] memcgroup: revert swap_state mods [message #23073 is a reply to message #23069] Mon, 12 November 2007 05:17 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is currently offline  KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:57:03 +0000 (GMT)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> > Could I confirm a change in the logic  ?
> > 
> >  * Before this patch, wrong swapcache charge is added to one who
> >    called try_to_free_page().
> 
> try_to_free_pages?  No, I don't think any wrong charge was made
> there. 
Ah, sorry. I misundestood when it was added to swapcache... 

> It was when reading in swap pages.  The usual way is by
> swapin_readahead, which reads in a cluster of swap pages, which
> are quite likely to belong to different memcgroups, but were all
> charged to the one which is doing the fault on its target page.
> Another way is in swapoff, where they all got charged to whoever
> was doing the swapoff (and the charging in unuse_pte was a no-op).
> 
I see.

> >  * After this patch, anonymous page's charge will drop to 0 when
> >    page_remove_rmap() is called.
> 
> Yes, when its final (usually its only) page_remove_rmap is called.
> 
Thank you for confirmation !

Regards,
-Kame

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