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SubjectRe: [mmotm][experimental][PATCH] coalescing charge
A few more comments.

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:18:35 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:17:27 +0900
> Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> > > =
> > > This is a code for batched charging using percpu cache.
> > > At charge, memcg charges 64pages and remember it in percpu cache.
> > > Because it's cache, drain/flushed if necessary.
> > >
> > > This version uses public percpu area , not per-memcg percpu area.
> > > 2 benefits of public percpu area.
> > > 1. Sum of stocked charge in the system is limited to # of cpus
> > > not to the number of memcg. This shows better synchonization.
> > > 2. drain code for flush/cpuhotplug is very easy (and quick)
> > >
> > > The most important point of this patch is that we never touch res_counter
> > > in fast path. The res_counter is system-wide shared counter which is modified
> > > very frequently. We shouldn't touch it as far as we can for avoid false sharing.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > It looks basically good. I'll do some tests with all patches applied.
> >
> thanks.
>
it seems that these patches make rmdir stall again...
This batched charge patch seems not to be the (only) suspect, though.

> > > @@ -1288,23 +1364,25 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struc
> > > return 0;
> > >
> > > VM_BUG_ON(css_is_removed(&mem->css));
> > > + if (mem_cgroup_is_root(mem))
> > > + goto done;
> > > + if (consume_stock(mem))
> > > + goto charged;
> > >
IMHO, it would be better to check consume_stock() every time in the while loop below,
because someone might have already refilled the stock while the current context
sleeps in reclaiming memory.

> > > while (1) {
> > > int ret = 0;
> > > unsigned long flags = 0;
> > >
> > > - if (mem_cgroup_is_root(mem))
> > > - goto done;
> > > - ret = res_counter_charge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE, &fail_res);
> > > + ret = res_counter_charge(&mem->res, CHARGE_SIZE, &fail_res);
> > > if (likely(!ret)) {
> > > if (!do_swap_account)
> > > break;
> > > - ret = res_counter_charge(&mem->memsw, PAGE_SIZE,
> > > + ret = res_counter_charge(&mem->memsw, CHARGE_SIZE,
> > > &fail_res);
> > > if (likely(!ret))
> > > break;
> > > /* mem+swap counter fails */
> > > - res_counter_uncharge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE);
> > > + res_counter_uncharge(&mem->res, CHARGE_SIZE);
> > > flags |= MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_NOSWAP;
> > > mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_res_counter(fail_res,
> > > memsw);
How about changing pre-charge size according to the loop count ?
IMHO, it would be better to disable pre-charge at least in nr_retries==0 case,
i.e. it is about to causing oom.


P.S. I will not be so active next week.

Thanks,
Daisuke Nishimura.


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