Re: [PATCH 0/3] fix stale swap cache account leak in memcg v7

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Wed, 13 May 2009 09:31:27 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 2009 15:21:58 +0530
> Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > The patch set includes followng
> > >  [1/3] add mem_cgroup_is_activated() function. which tell us memcg is _really_ used.
> > >  [2/3] fix swap cache handling race by avoidng readahead.
> > >  [3/3] fix swap cache handling race by check swapcount again.
> > > 
> > > Result is good under my test.
> > 
> > What was the result (performance data impact) of disabling swap
> > readahead? Otherwise, this looks the most reasonable set of patches
> > for this problem.
> > 
> I'll measure some and report it in the next post.
> 
I confirmed there are cases which swapin readahead works very well....

Nishimura-san, could you post a patch for fixing leak at writeback ? as [3/3]
I'd like to fix readahead case...with some large patch.

Hm, I didn't think this problem took 2 months to be fixed ;(

-Kame

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