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

[Andrea Righi]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:38:28PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> 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).

Fair enough.

Thanks,
-Andrea
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