linux-kernel - Re: Help Resource Counters Scale better (v4)

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Message-ID: <20090812035740.GG7176@balbir.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:27:40 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, menage@...gle.com,
	prarit@...hat.com, andi.kleen@...el.com, xemul@...nvz.org,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Help Resource Counters Scale better (v4)

* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> [2009-08-11 16:31:59]:

> Is this an alternative approach to using percpu_counters, or do we do
> both or do we choose one or the other?  res_counter_charge() really is
> quite sucky.
>

This is an alternative approach, I'll still do the percpu counter
patches, but once the overhead for root is gone, most users not using
this functionality will not see any major overhead. 

-- 
	Balbir
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