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[PATCH 0/6 v3] memcg: page cgroup diet

From:  KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To:  "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject:  [RFC] [PATCH 0/6 v3] memcg: page cgroup diet
Date:  Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:06:27 +0900
Message-ID:  <20120206190627.7313ff82.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc:  "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread


Here is my page_cgroup diet series v3. Since v2, "remove PCG_CACHE" is alread
merged.

This series changes page-stat-accounting per memcg 

from:
	if (change page's state)
		mem_cgroup_update_page_state()

to:
	mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_state()
	if (change page's state)
		mem_cgroup_update_page_state()
	mem_cgroup_end_update_page_state()

(see patch 4 for details.) This allows us not to duplicate page struct's
information in page_cgroup's flag field.

Because above sequence adds 2 extra calls to hot-path, performance will be problem.
Patch 6 is a fix for performance, and I don't see performance regression in my
small test. (see patch 6 for details.)

Thanks,
-Kame






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