[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/9] bio-cgroup controller

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com
Wed Apr 15 16:58:14 PDT 2009


On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:23:57 +0200
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:38:50PM +0900, Ryo Tsuruta wrote:
> > Hi Andrea and Kamezawa-san,
> > 
> > > Ryo, it would be great if you can look at this and fix/integrate into
> > > the mainstream bio-cgroup. Otherwise I can try to to schedule this in my
> > > work.
> > 
> > O.K. I'll apply those fixes and post patches as soon as I can.
> > 
> 
> Very good! I've just tested the bio_cgroup_id inclusion in
> page_cgroup->flags. I'm posting the patch on-top-of my patchset.
> 
> If you're interested, it should apply cleanly to the original
> bio-cgroup, except for the get/put_cgroup_from_page() part.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Andrea
> ---
> bio-cgroup: encode bio_cgroup_id in page_cgroup->flags
> 
> Encode the bio_cgroup_id into the flags argument of page_cgroup as
> suggested by Kamezawa.
> 
> Lower 16-bits of the flags attribute are used for the actual page_cgroup
> flags. The rest is reserved to store the bio-cgroup id.
> 
> This allows to save 4 bytes (in 32-bit architectures) or 8 bytes (in
> 64-bit) for each page_cgroup element.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea at gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/biotrack.h    |    2 +-
>  include/linux/page_cgroup.h |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  mm/biotrack.c               |   26 ++++++++++++--------------
>  3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/biotrack.h b/include/linux/biotrack.h
> index 25b8810..4bd0242 100644
> --- a/include/linux/biotrack.h
> +++ b/include/linux/biotrack.h
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct bio_cgroup {
>  
>  static inline void __init_bio_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc)
>  {
> -	pc->bio_cgroup_id = 0;
> +	page_cgroup_set_bio_id(pc, 0);
>  }
>  
>  extern struct cgroup *get_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page);
> diff --git a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> index 00a49c5..af780a4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> @@ -16,12 +16,30 @@ struct page_cgroup {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
>  	struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
>  #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_BIO
> -	int bio_cgroup_id;
> -#endif
>  	struct list_head lru;		/* per cgroup LRU list */
>  };
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_BIO
> +/*
> + * use lower 16 bits for flags and reserve the rest for the bio-cgroup id
> + */
> +#define BIO_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT	(16)
> +#define BIO_CGROUP_ID_BITS (8 * sizeof(unsigned long) - BIO_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT)
> +
> +static inline unsigned long page_cgroup_get_bio_id(struct page_cgroup *pc)
> +{
> +	return pc->flags >> BIO_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void page_cgroup_set_bio_id(struct page_cgroup *pc,
> +				unsigned long id)
> +{
> +	WARN_ON(id >= (1UL << BIO_CGROUP_ID_BITS));
> +	pc->flags &= (1UL << BIO_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT) - 1;
> +	pc->flags |= (unsigned long)(id << BIO_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
Ah, there is "Lock" bit in pc->flags and above "set" code does read-modify-write
without lock_page_cgroup().

Could you use lock_page_cgroup() or cmpxchg ? (or using something magical technique ?)

Thanks,
-Kame

>  void __meminit pgdat_page_cgroup_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
>  void __init page_cgroup_init(void);
>  struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page);
> diff --git a/mm/biotrack.c b/mm/biotrack.c
> index 431056c..4cca3bf 100644
> --- a/mm/biotrack.c
> +++ b/mm/biotrack.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void bio_cgroup_set_owner(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	struct bio_cgroup *biog;
>  	struct page_cgroup *pc;
>  
> -	WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(PG_locked, &page->flags));
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_bit(PG_locked, &page->flags));
>  
>  	if (bio_cgroup_disabled())
>  		return;
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ void bio_cgroup_set_owner(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	if (unlikely(!pc))
>  		return;
>  
> -	pc->bio_cgroup_id = 0;	/* 0: default bio_cgroup id */
> +	__init_bio_page_cgroup(pc);
>  	if (!mm)
>  		return;
>  	/*
> @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ void bio_cgroup_set_owner(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  		goto out;
>  	/*
>  	 * css_get(&bio->css) isn't called to increment the reference
> -	 * count of this bio_cgroup "biog" so pc->bio_cgroup_id might turn
> -	 * invalid even if this page is still active.
> -	 * This approach is chosen to minimize the overhead.
> +	 * count of this bio_cgroup "biog" so the bio-cgroup id might turn
> +	 * invalid even if this page is still active. This approach is chosen
> +	 * to minimize the overhead.
>  	 */
> -	pc->bio_cgroup_id = biog->id;
> +	page_cgroup_set_bio_id(pc, biog->id);
>  out:
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  }
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void bio_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	/*
>  	 * A little trick:
>  	 * Just call bio_cgroup_set_owner() for pages which are already
> -	 * active since the bio_cgroup_id member of page_cgroup can be
> +	 * active since the bio-cgroup id member of page_cgroup can be
>  	 * updated without any locks. This is because an integer type of
>  	 * variable can be set a new value at once on modern cpus.
>  	 */
> @@ -148,12 +148,10 @@ void bio_cgroup_copy_owner(struct page *npage, struct page *opage)
>  	opc = lookup_page_cgroup(opage);
>  	if (unlikely(!opc))
>  		return;
> -
>  	/*
> -	 * Do this without any locks. The reason is the same as
> -	 * bio_cgroup_reset_owner().
> +	 * XXX: is it safe to do this without locking?
>  	 */
> -	npc->bio_cgroup_id = opc->bio_cgroup_id;
> +	page_cgroup_set_bio_id(npc, page_cgroup_get_bio_id(opc));
>  }
>  
>  /* Create a new bio-cgroup. */
> @@ -250,7 +248,7 @@ struct cgroup *get_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
>  	if (!pc)
>  		return NULL;
>  	lock_page_cgroup(pc);
> -	biog = find_bio_cgroup(pc->bio_cgroup_id);
> +	biog = find_bio_cgroup(page_cgroup_get_bio_id(pc));
>  	if (biog) {
>  		css_get(&biog->css);
>  		cgrp = biog->css.cgroup;
> @@ -268,7 +266,7 @@ void put_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
>  	if (!pc)
>  		return;
>  	lock_page_cgroup(pc);
> -	biog = find_bio_cgroup(pc->bio_cgroup_id);
> +	biog = find_bio_cgroup(page_cgroup_get_bio_id(pc));
>  	if (biog)
>  		css_put(&biog->css);
>  	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
> @@ -283,7 +281,7 @@ int get_bio_cgroup_id(struct bio *bio)
>  
>  	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
>  	if (pc)
> -		id = pc->bio_cgroup_id;
> +		id = page_cgroup_get_bio_id(pc);
>  	return id;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_bio_cgroup_id);

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