Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] memcg: add kernel calls for memcg dirty page stats

From: Greg Thelen
Date: Thu Mar 10 2011 - 11:19:20 EST


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:40 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:01:43 +0900
> Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 01:35:57PM -0800, Greg Thelen wrote:
>                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
>> >     } else {
>> > @@ -1365,6 +1368,7 @@ int test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
>> >                                             PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
>> >                     if (bdi_cap_account_writeback(bdi))
>> >                             __inc_bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
>> > +                   mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(page, MEMCG_NR_FILE_WRITEBACK);
>>
>> Question:
>> Why should we care of BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK?
>>
> Hmm, should we do ..
> ==
>        if (!ret) {
>                account_page_writeback(page);
> +               mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(page, MEMCG_NR_FILE_WRITEBACL);
>        }
> ==

Yes, I agree with Minchan that this is an issue. I think Kame's fix
is good. I will apply Kame's fix to test_set_page_writeback(). I
also found that test_clear_page_writeback() has the same issue and it
will also be fixed. I will be posting v6 shortly (hopefully today)
with these fixes.

> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>
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