Re: [PATCH v2] writeback: use exact memcg dirty counts

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 02 2019 - 17:32:36 EST


On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 14:20:44 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:46:09AM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> > @@ -3907,10 +3923,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pfilepages,
> > struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css);
> > struct mem_cgroup *parent;
> >
> > - *pdirty = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> > + *pdirty = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> >
> > /* this should eventually include NR_UNSTABLE_NFS */
> > - *pwriteback = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK);
> > + *pwriteback = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK);
> > *pfilepages = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, (1 << LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) |
> > (1 << LRU_ACTIVE_FILE));
>
> Andrew,
>
> just a head-up: -mm has that LRU stat cleanup series queued ("mm:
> memcontrol: clean up the LRU counts tracking") that changes the
> mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages() call here to two memcg_page_state().
>
> I'm assuming Greg's fix here will get merged before the cleanup. When
> it gets picked up, it'll conflict with "mm: memcontrol: push down
> mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages()".
>
> "mm: memcontrol: push down mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages()" will need to be
> changed to use memcg_exact_page_state() calls instead of the plain
> memcg_page_state() for *pfilepages.
>

Thanks. Like this?

void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pfilepages,
unsigned long *pheadroom, unsigned long *pdirty,
unsigned long *pwriteback)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css);
struct mem_cgroup *parent;

*pdirty = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY);

/* this should eventually include NR_UNSTABLE_NFS */
*pwriteback = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK);
*pfilepages = memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
memcg_exact_page_state(memcg, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
*pheadroom = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;

while ((parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) {
unsigned long ceiling = min(memcg->memory.max, memcg->high);
unsigned long used = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);

*pheadroom = min(*pheadroom, ceiling - min(ceiling, used));
memcg = parent;
}
}