Re: [PATCH 2/2] memcg: dirty pages instrumentation

From: David Rientjes
Date: Sun Feb 21 2010 - 16:38:41 EST


On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Andrea Righi wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index 0b19943..c9ff1cd 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -137,10 +137,11 @@ static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties;
> */
> static int calc_period_shift(void)
> {
> - unsigned long dirty_total;
> + unsigned long dirty_total, dirty_bytes;
>
> - if (vm_dirty_bytes)
> - dirty_total = vm_dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
> + dirty_bytes = mem_cgroup_dirty_bytes();
> + if (dirty_bytes)
> + dirty_total = dirty_bytes / PAGE_SIZE;
> else
> dirty_total = (vm_dirty_ratio * determine_dirtyable_memory()) /
> 100;

This needs a comment since mem_cgroup_dirty_bytes() doesn't imply that it
is responsible for returning the global vm_dirty_bytes when that's
actually what it does (both for CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTRL=n and root
cgroup).
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