Re: [PATCH] splitlru: memcg swapbacked pages active

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:22:22 +0100 (BST)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> > 
> > --- mmotm/mm/memcontrol.c	2008-06-27 13:39:20.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux/mm/memcontrol.c	2008-06-27 17:32:29.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -560,6 +560,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(stru
> >  		pc->flags = PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_CACHE;
> >  		if (page_is_file_cache(page))
> >  			pc->flags |= PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_FILE;
> > +		else
> > +			pc->flags |= PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_ACTIVE;
> >  	} else
> >  		pc->flags = PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_ACTIVE;
> >  
>
> Hmm, maybe no trouble but we'll have to care shmem's page is not marked as
> PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_CACHE but charged by mem_cgroup_charge_cache_page(). 
> (I think why shmem is charged as cache is because shmem is used for tmpfs)
> 
> pc->flags |= PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_FILE |  PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_ACTIVE;
> 
> is bad ? (or not work ? I can't catch yet.)

Sorry, I've tried several times to understand you here, but still don't.

I thought shmem's page is marked as PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_CACHE, and is
charged by mem_cgroup_charge_cache_page(), and that's what memcg wants?

It is a bit weird that PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_CACHE and PAGE_CGROUP_FLAG_FILE
diverge, I'm not thrilled with that: that's an aspect of splitlru
treating shmem/tmpfs pages as not-file pages, which I'm unhappy with.

Hugh