Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:38:32 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 6/8] memcg: Don't account root_mem_cgroup page statistics | From | Sha Zhengju <> |
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > (2012/12/26 2:27), Sha Zhengju wrote: >> From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> >> >> If memcg is enabled and no non-root memcg exists, all allocated pages >> belongs to root_mem_cgroup and go through root memcg statistics routines >> which brings some overheads. So for the sake of performance, we can give >> up accounting stats of root memcg for MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED/FILE_DIRTY >> /WRITEBACK and instead we pay special attention while showing root >> memcg numbers in memcg_stat_show(): as we don't account root memcg stats >> anymore, the root_mem_cgroup->stat numbers are actually 0. But because of >> hierachy, figures of root_mem_cgroup may just represent numbers of pages >> used by its own tasks(not belonging to any other child cgroup). So here we >> fake these root numbers by using stats of global state and all other memcg. >> That is for root memcg: >> nr(MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED) = global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) - >> sum_of_all_memcg(MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED); >> Dirty/Writeback pages accounting are in the similar way. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> > > isn't it better to use mem_cgroup_is_root() call rather than > direct comparison (memcg == root_mem_cgroup) ? >
Okay, it's better to use the wrapper.
> Anyway, Ack to this approach. >
Thanks for reviewing!
Regards, Sha
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