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| Re: [PATCH 3/5] page_cgroup: make page tracking available for blkio [message #41837 is a reply to message #41817] |
Tue, 22 February 2011 23:37   |
Andrea Righi
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:06:30PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:01:47AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:01:45PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:12:54 +0100
> > > Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The page_cgroup infrastructure, currently available only for the memory
> > > > cgroup controller, can be used to store the owner of each page and
> > > > opportunely track the writeback IO. This information is encoded in
> > > > the upper 16-bits of the page_cgroup->flags.
> > > >
> > > > A owner can be identified using a generic ID number and the following
> > > > interfaces are provided to store a retrieve this information:
> > > >
> > > > unsigned long page_cgroup_get_owner(struct page *page);
> > > > int page_cgroup_set_owner(struct page *page, unsigned long id);
> > > > int page_cgroup_copy_owner(struct page *npage, struct page *opage);
> > >
> > > My immediate observation is that you're not really tracking the "owner"
> > > here - you're tracking an opaque 16-bit token known only to the block
> > > controller in a field which - if changed by anybody other than the block
> > > controller - will lead to mayhem in the block controller. I think it
> > > might be clearer - and safer - to say "blkcg" or some such instead of
> > > "owner" here.
> > >
> >
> > Basically the idea here was to be as generic as possible and make this
> > feature potentially available also to other subsystems, so that cgroup
> > subsystems may represent whatever they want with the 16-bit token.
> > However, no more than a single subsystem may be able to use this feature
> > at the same time.
> >
> > > I'm tempted to say it might be better to just add a pointer to your
> > > throtl_grp structure into struct page_cgroup. Or maybe replace the
> > > mem_cgroup pointer with a single pointer to struct css_set. Both of
> > > those ideas, though, probably just add unwanted extra overhead now to gain
> > > generality which may or may not be wanted in the future.
> >
> > The pointer to css_set sounds good, but it would add additional space to
> > the page_cgroup struct. Now, page_cgroup is 40 bytes (in 64-bit arch)
> > and all of them are allocated at boot time. Using unused bits in
> > page_cgroup->flags is a choice with no overhead from this point of view.
>
> I think John suggested replacing mem_cgroup pointer with css_set so that
> size of the strcuture does not increase but it leads extra level of
> indirection.
OK, got it sorry.
So, IIUC we save css_set pointer and get a struct cgroup as following:
struct cgroup *cgrp = css_set->subsys[subsys_id]->cgroup;
Then, for example to get the mem_cgroup reference:
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
It seems a lot of indirections, but I may have done something wrong or
there could be a simpler way to do it.
Thanks,
-Andrea
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