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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 0/6] Provide cgroup isolation for buffered writes.
    On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:22 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
    <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
    > On Tue,  8 Mar 2011 13:20:50 -0800
    > Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> wrote:
    >
    >> This patchset adds tracking to the page_cgroup structure for which cgroup has
    >> dirtied a page, and uses that information to provide isolation between
    >> cgroups performing writeback.
    >>
    >> I know that there is some discussion to remove request descriptor limits
    >> entirely, but I included a patch to introduce per-cgroup limits to enable
    >> this functionality. Without it, we didn't see much isolation improvement.
    >>
    >> I think most of this material has been discussed on lkml previously, this is
    >> just another attempt to make a patchset that handles buffered writes for CFQ.
    >>
    >> There was a lot of previous discussion at:
    >>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1007922
    >>
    >> Thanks to Andrea Righi, Kamezawa Hiroyuki, Munehiro Ikeda, Nauman Rafique,
    >> and Vivek Goyal for work on previous versions of these patches.
    >>
    >
    > 2 points from me.
    >
    > 1. If you know there is a thread, please join even if it's a bit little thread.
    > 2. In these days, I got many comments as 'page_cgroup is toooo big', so
    >   I don't feel fun when I see a patch which increases size of page_cgroup.
    >
    > I don't like to increase size of page_cgroup but I think you can record
    > information without increasing size of page_cgroup.

    That sounds reasonable.

    >
    > A) As Andrea did, encode it to pc->flags.
    >   But I'm afraid that there is a racy case because memory cgroup uses some
    >   test_and_set() bits.
    > B) I wonder why the information cannot be recorded in page->private.
    >   When page has buffers, you can record the information to buffer struct.
    >   About swapio (if you take care of), you can record information to bio.
    >
    > Anyway, thank you for the work. And please join the discussion and explain
    > "Without it, we didn't see much isolation improvement." with real data.

    Thanks. I will include real data in the cover sheet for v2 of the
    patchset, which I'll mail out soon.

    Thanks,
    Justin

    >
    > Regards,
    > -Kame
    >
    >
    >
    >>
    >>  Documentation/block/biodoc.txt |   10 +
    >>  block/blk-cgroup.c             |  204 +++++++++++++++++++++-
    >>  block/blk-cgroup.h             |    9 +-
    >>  block/blk-core.c               |  216 +++++++++++++++--------
    >>  block/blk-settings.c           |    2 +-
    >>  block/blk-sysfs.c              |   60 ++++---
    >>  block/cfq-iosched.c            |  390 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
    >>  block/cfq.h                    |    6 +-
    >>  block/elevator.c               |   11 +-
    >>  fs/buffer.c                    |    2 +
    >>  fs/direct-io.c                 |    2 +
    >>  include/linux/blk_types.h      |    2 +
    >>  include/linux/blkdev.h         |   81 ++++++++-
    >>  include/linux/blkio-track.h    |   89 +++++++++
    >>  include/linux/elevator.h       |   14 ++-
    >>  include/linux/iocontext.h      |    1 +
    >>  include/linux/memcontrol.h     |    6 +
    >>  include/linux/mmzone.h         |    4 +-
    >>  include/linux/page_cgroup.h    |   12 +-
    >>  init/Kconfig                   |   16 ++
    >>  mm/Makefile                    |    3 +-
    >>  mm/bounce.c                    |    2 +
    >>  mm/filemap.c                   |    2 +
    >>  mm/memcontrol.c                |    6 +
    >>  mm/memory.c                    |    6 +
    >>  mm/page-writeback.c            |   14 ++-
    >>  mm/page_cgroup.c               |   29 ++-
    >>  mm/swap_state.c                |    2 +
    >>  28 files changed, 985 insertions(+), 216 deletions(-)
    >>
    >> [PATCH 1/6] Add IO cgroup tracking for buffered writes.
    >> [PATCH 2/6] Make async queues per cgroup.
    >> [PATCH 3/6] Modify CFQ to use IO tracking information.
    >> [PATCH 4/6] With per-cgroup async, don't special case queues.
    >> [PATCH 5/6] Add stat for per cgroup writeout done by flusher.
    >> [PATCH 6/6] Per cgroup request descriptor counts
    >>
    >
    >
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