Re: [RFC][PATCH] Remove cgroup member from struct page

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:17:56 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> This is a rewrite of a patch I had written long back to remove struct page
> (I shared the patches with Kamezawa, but never posted them anywhere else).
> I spent the weekend, cleaning them up for 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm (29 Aug 2008).
> 
> I've tested the patches on an x86_64 box, I've run a simple test running
> under the memory control group and the same test running concurrently under
> two different groups (and creating pressure within their groups). I've also
> compiled the patch with CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR turned off.
> 
> Advantages of the patch
> 
> 1. It removes the extra pointer in struct page
> 
> Disadvantages
> 
> 1. It adds an additional lock structure to struct page_cgroup
> 2. Radix tree lookup is not an O(1) operation, once the page is known
>    getting to the page_cgroup (pc) is a little more expensive now.
> 
> This is an initial RFC for comments
> 
> TODOs
> 
> 1. Test the page migration changes
> 2. Test the performance impact of the patch/approach
> 
> Comments/Reviews?
> 
BTW, how deep this radix-tree on 4GB/32GB/64GB/256GB machine ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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