Keika Kobayashi wrote:
quoted text
> Hi.
> 
> This is v2 of accounting memory reclaim patch series.
> Thanks to Kosaki-san, Kamezawa-san, Andrew for comments and advice!
> These patches were fixed about the following.
> 
> Against: next-20080605
> 
> 1) Change Log
> 
>  o Add accounting memory reclaim delay from memcgroup.
>    For accounting both global and cgroup memory reclaim,
>    accounting point was moved from try_to_free_pages() to do_try_to_free_pages.
> 
>  o Drop the patch regarding /proc export for memory reclaim delay.
>    Because it seems that two separate ways to report are not necessary,
>    this patch series supports only NETLINK and doesn't add a field to /proc/<pid>/stat.
> 
> 
> 2) Confirm the fix regarding memcgroup.
> 
>   o Previous patch can't catch memory reclaim delay from memcgroup.
> 
>     $ echo 10M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
> 
>     $ ls -s test.dat
>     500496 test.dat
> 
>     $ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
>     real    0m21.957s
>     user    0m0.032s
>     sys     0m2.348s
> 
>     $ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
>     CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total
>                      2441     2288143000     2438256954       22371958
>     IO              count    delay total
>                      2444    18745251314
>     SWAP            count    delay total
>                         0              0
>     RECLAIM         count    delay total
>                         0              0
> 
>   o Current patch can catch memory reclaim delay from memcgroup.
> 
>     $ echo 10M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
> 
>     $ ls -s test.dat
>     500496 test.dat
> 
>     $ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat
>     real    0m22.563s
>     user    0m0.028s
>     sys     0m2.440s
> 
>     $ ./delayget -d -p <pid>
>     CPU             count     real total  virtual total    delay total
>                      2640     2456153500     2478353004       28366219
>     IO              count    delay total
>                      2628    19894214188
>     SWAP            count    delay total
>                         0              0
>     RECLAIM         count    delay total
>                      6600    10682486085
> 

Looks interesting, this data is for the whole system or memcgroup? If it is for
memcgroup, we should be using cgroupstats.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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