Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH 5/7] UBC: kernel memory accounting (core)

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Rohit Seth wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:35 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:


My preference would be to have container (I keep on saying container,
but resource beancounter) pointer embeded in task, mm(not sure),
address_space and anon_vma structures.  This should allow us to track
user land pages optimally.  But for tracking kernel usage on behalf of
user, we will have to use an additional field (unless we can re-use
mapping).  Please correct me if I'm wrong, though all the kernel
resources will be allocated/freed in context of a user process.  And at
that time we know if a allocation should succeed or not.  So we may
actually not need to track kernel pages that closely.  We are not going
to run reclaim on any of them anyways.

objects are really allocated in process context
(except for TCP/IP and other softirqs which are done in arbitrary
process context!)


Can these pages be tagged using mapping field of the page struct.
kernel pages can be taged with mapping field.
User pages - not. So we introduce 2 pointers in the unoin:
union {
 page_ub		// for kernel pages
 page_pb		// for user pages
}



And objects are not always freed in correct context (!).


You mean beyond Networking and softirq.


Note, page_ub is not for _user_ pages. user pages accounting will be added
in next patch set. page_ub is added to track kernel allocations.



But will the page_ub be used for some purpose for user land pages?
yes. see above.

Kirill

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