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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/9] bio-cgroup controller
    On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:22:01 +0900 (JST)
    Ryo Tsuruta <ryov@valinux.co.jp> wrote:

    > In the case where the bio-cgroup data is allocated dynamically,
    > - Sometimes quite a large amount of memory get marked dirty.
    > In this case it requires more kernel memory than that of the
    > current implementation.
    > - The operation is expansive due to memory allocations and exclusive
    > controls by such as spinlocks.
    >
    > In the case where the bio-cgroup data is allocated by delayed allocation,
    > - It makes the operation complicated and expensive, because
    > sometimes a bio has to be created in the context of other
    > processes, such as aio and swap-out operation.
    >
    > I'd prefer a simple and lightweight implementation. bio-cgroup only
    > needs 4bytes unlike memory controller. The reason why bio-cgroup chose
    > this approach is to minimize the overhead.
    >
    My point is, plz do your best to reduce memory usage here. You increase
    size of page_cgroup just because you cannot increase size of struct page.
    It's not be sane reason to increase size of this object.
    It's a cheat in my point of view.


    Thanks,
    -Kame



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