Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)
- From: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:09:26 +0530
Paul Menage wrote:
On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour. One small
container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the
system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time.
So it's a point at which container A can deleteriously affect things which
are running in other containers, which is exactly what we're supposed to
not do.
I think it's OK for a container to consume lots of system time during
reclaim, as long as we can account that time to the container involved
(i.e. if it's done during direct reclaim rather than by something like
kswapd).
Churning the LRU could well be bad though, I agree.
I completely agree with you on reclaim consuming time.
Churning the LRU can be avoided by the means I mentioned before
1. Add a container pointer (per page struct), it is also
useful for the page cache controller
2. Check if the page belongs to a particular container before
the list_del(&page->lru), so that those pages can be skipped.
3. Use a double LRU list by overloading the lru list_head of
struct page.
Paul
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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
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