On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:38:07 +0200
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > If KSM pages are on radix-tree, it will be accounted automatically.
> > Now, we have "Unevictable" LRU and mlocked() pages are smartly isolated into its
> > own LRU. So, just doing
> >
> >  - inode's radix-tree
> >  - make all pages mlocked.
> >  - provide special page fault handler for your purpose
> >   
> 
> Well in this version that i am going to merge the pages arent going to 
> be swappable,
> Latter after Ksm will get merged we will make the KsmPages swappable...
good to hear

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> so i think working with cgroups would be effective / useful only when 
> KsmPages will start be swappable...
> Do you agree?
> (What i am saying is that right now lets dont count the KsmPages inside 
> the cgroup, lets do it when KsmPages
> will be swappable)
> 
ok.

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> If you feel this pages should be counted in the cgroup i have no problem 
> to do it via hooks like page migration is doing.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> > is simple one. But ok, whatever implementation you'll do, I have to check it
> > and consider whether it should be tracked or not. Then, add codes to memcg to
> > track it or ignore it or comments on your patches ;)
> >
> > It's helpful to add me to CC: when you post this set again.
> >   
> 
> Sure will.
> 

If necessary, I'll have to add "ignore in this case" hook in memcg.
(ex. checking PageKSM flag in memcg.)

If you are sufferred from memcg in your test, cgroup_disable=memory boot option
will allow you to disable memcg.


Thanks,
-Kame








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