From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B04C55181 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5D32087E for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728434AbgDUJNY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:13:24 -0400 Received: from out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com ([115.124.30.54]:52067 "EHLO out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726018AbgDUJNX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:13:23 -0400 X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R161e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;DS=||;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=e01e01419;MF=alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=11;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0TwDfDaE_1587460397; Received: from IT-FVFX43SYHV2H.local(mailfrom:alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0TwDfDaE_1587460397) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com(127.0.0.1); Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:13:18 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new mem_cgroup_charge() API To: Johannes Weiner , Joonsoo Kim Cc: Shakeel Butt , Hugh Dickins , Michal Hocko , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Roman Gushchin , linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com References: <20200420221126.341272-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20200420221126.341272-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org> From: Alex Shi Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:12:11 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200420221126.341272-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gbk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ÔÚ 2020/4/21 ÉÏÎç6:11, Johannes Weiner дµÀ: > The try/commit/cancel protocol that memcg uses dates back to when > pages used to be uncharged upon removal from the page cache, and thus > couldn't be committed before the insertion had succeeded. Nowadays, > pages are uncharged when they are physically freed; it doesn't matter > whether the insertion was successful or not. For the page cache, the > transaction dance has become unnecessary. > > Introduce a mem_cgroup_charge() function that simply charges a newly > allocated page to a cgroup and sets up page->mem_cgroup in one single > step. If the insertion fails, the caller doesn't have to do anything > but free/put the page. > > Then switch the page cache over to this new API. > > Subsequent patches will also convert anon pages, but it needs a bit > more prep work. Right now, memcg depends on page->mapping being > already set up at the time of charging, so that it can maintain its > own MEMCG_CACHE and MEMCG_RSS counters. For anon, page->mapping is set > under the same pte lock under which the page is publishd, so a single > charge point that can block doesn't work there just yet. > > The following prep patches will replace the private memcg counters > with the generic vmstat counters, thus removing the page->mapping > dependency, then complete the transition to the new single-point > charge API and delete the old transactional scheme. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > --- Reviewed-by: Alex Shi