Re: [PATCH] mm: preallocate page before lock_page at filemap COW.(WasRe: [PATCH V2] mm: Do not keep page locked during page fault whilecharging it for memcg

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 23-06-11 22:01:40, Hiroyuki Kamezawa wrote:
> 2011/6/23 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Thu 23-06-11 19:01:57, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> >> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:02:04 +0200
> >> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu 23-06-11 17:08:11, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:41:33 +0200
> >> > > Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > [...]
> >> > > > Other than that:
> >> > > > Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > I found the page is added to LRU before charging. (In this case,
> >> > > memcg's LRU is ignored.) I'll post a new version with a fix.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, you are right. I have missed that.
> >> > This means that we might race with reclaim which could evict the COWed
> >> > page wich in turn would uncharge that page even though we haven't
> >> > charged it yet.
> >> >
> >> > Can we postpone page_add_new_anon_rmap to the charging path or it would
> >> > just race somewhere else?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I got a different idea. How about this ?
> >> I think this will have benefit for non-memcg users under OOM, too.
> >
> > Could you be more specific? I do not see how preallocation which might
> > turn out to be pointless could help under OOM.
> >
> 
> We'll have no page allocation under lock_page() held in this path.
> I think it is good.

But it can also cause that the page, we are about to fault in, is evicted
due to allocation so we would have to do a major fault... This is
probably not that serious, though.

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Michal Hocko
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