Re: [PATCH v8 09/12] memcg: create support routines for writeback

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 03:53:35 EST


On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:12:15 -0700
Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Introduce memcg routines to assist in per-memcg writeback:
>
> - mem_cgroups_over_bground_dirty_thresh() determines if any cgroups need
> writeback because they are over their dirty memory threshold.
>
> - should_writeback_mem_cgroup_inode() determines if an inode is
> contributing pages to an over-limit memcg. A new writeback_control
> field determines if shared inodes should be written back.
>
> - mem_cgroup_writeback_done() is used periodically during writeback to
> update memcg writeback data.
>
> These routines make use of a new over_bground_dirty_thresh bitmap that
> indicates which mem_cgroup are over their respective dirty background
> threshold. As this bitmap is indexed by css_id, the largest possible
> css_id value is needed to create the bitmap. So move the definition of
> CSS_ID_MAX from cgroup.c to cgroup.h. This allows users of css_id() to
> know the largest possible css_id value. This knowledge can be used to
> build such per-cgroup bitmaps.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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