Re: [RFI] Shared accounting for memory resource controller

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:01:15 +0530
Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:48 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:41:15 +0530
> > Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 3. Using the above, we can then try to (using an algorithm you
> > > proposed), try to do some work for figuring out the shared percentage.
> > >
> > This is the point. At last. Why "# of shared pages" is important ?
> >
> > I wonder it's better to add new stat file as memory.cacheinfo which helps
> > following kind of commands.
> >
> > Â#cacheinfo /cgroups/memory/group01/
> > Â Â Â /usr/lib/libc.so.1 Â Â 30pages
> >    /var/log/messages   Â1 pages
> >    /tmp/xxxxxx      Â20 pages
> 
> Can I suggest that we don't add new files for additional stats and try
> as far as possible to include them in <controller>.stat file. Please
> note that we have APIs in libcgroup library which can return
> statistics from controllers associated with a cgroup and these APIs
> assume that stats are part of <controller>.stat file.
> 
Hmm ? Is there generic assumption as all cgroup has "stat" file ?
And libcgroup cause bug if the new entry is added to stat file ?
(IOW, libcgroup can't ignore new entry added ?)

Thanks,
-Kame

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