linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] mm: Assign id to every memcg-aware shrinker

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Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:27:08 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] mm: Assign id to every memcg-aware shrinker

On 18.04.2018 17:14, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> The patch introduces shrinker::id number, which is used to enumerate
>> memcg-aware shrinkers. The number start from 0, and the code tries
>> to maintain it as small as possible.
>>
>> This will be used as to represent a memcg-aware shrinkers in memcg
>> shrinkers map.
> 
> I'm not reading this thread. But is there reason "id" needs to be managed
> using smallest numbers? Can't we use address of shrinker object as "id"
> (which will be sparse bitmap, and would be managed using linked list for now)?

Yes, it's needed to have the smallest numbers, as next patches introduce
per-memcg bitmap containing ids of shrinkers.

Kirill