On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 10:44:59PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:31:26PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > (2012/06/28 20:05), Sha Zhengju wrote: > > > From: Sha Zhengju <handai....@taobao.com> > > > > > > Similar to dirty page, we add per cgroup writeback pages accounting. The > > > lock > > > rule still is: > > > mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() > > > modify page WRITEBACK stat > > > mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() > > > mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat() > > > > > > There're two writeback interface to modify: test_clear/set_page_writeback. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai....@taobao.com> > > > > Seems good to me. BTW, you named macros as MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_XXX > > but I wonder these counters will be used for accounting swap-out's dirty > > pages.. > > > > STAT_DIRTY, STAT_WRITEBACK ? do you have better name ? > > Perhaps we can follow the established "enum zone_stat_item" names: > > NR_FILE_DIRTY, > NR_WRITEBACK, > > s/NR_/MEM_CGROUP_STAT_/ > > The names indicate that dirty pages for anonymous pages are not > accounted (by __set_page_dirty_no_writeback()). While the writeback > pages accounting include both the file/anon pages. > > Ah then we'll need to update the document in patch 0 accordingly. This > may sound a bit tricky to the users..
We already report the global one as "nr_dirty", though. Please don't give the memcg one a different name. The enum naming is not too critical, but it would be nice to have it match the public name. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
