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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:50:54 -0700
From: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] cgroups: Ability to stop res charge propagation on
bounded ancestor
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> Moving a task from a cgroup to another may require to substract
> its resource charge from the old cgroup and add it to the new one.
>
> For this to happen, the uncharge/charge propagation can just stop
> when we reach the common ancestor for the two cgroups. Further
> the performance reasons, we also want to avoid to temporarily
> overload the common ancestors with a non-accurate resource
> counter usage if we charge first the new cgroup and uncharge the
> old one thereafter. This is going to be a requirement for the coming
> max number of task subsystem.
>
> To solve this, provide a pair of new API that can charge/uncharge
> a resource counter until we reach a given ancestor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Looks good, thanks.
Paul
> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
> ---
> include/linux/res_counter.h | 6 ++++++
> kernel/res_counter.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/res_counter.h b/include/linux/res_counter.h
> index 109d118..8c421ac 100644
> --- a/include/linux/res_counter.h
> +++ b/include/linux/res_counter.h
> @@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *counter, struct res_counter *parent);
>
> int __must_check res_counter_charge_locked(struct res_counter *counter,
> unsigned long val);
> +int __must_check res_counter_charge_until(struct res_counter *counter,
> + struct res_counter *limit,
> + unsigned long val,
> + struct res_counter **limit_fail_at);
> int __must_check res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *counter,
> unsigned long val, struct res_counter **limit_fail_at);
>
> @@ -131,6 +135,8 @@ int __must_check res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *counter,
> */
>
> void res_counter_uncharge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val);
> +void res_counter_uncharge_until(struct res_counter *counter, struct res_counter *limit,
> + unsigned long val);
> void res_counter_uncharge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val);
>
> /**
> diff --git a/kernel/res_counter.c b/kernel/res_counter.c
> index 8cb0362..39f2513 100644
> --- a/kernel/res_counter.c
> +++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
> @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ int res_counter_charge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val,
> - struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
> +int res_counter_charge_until(struct res_counter *counter,
> + struct res_counter *limit, unsigned long val,
> + struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
> {
> int ret;
> unsigned long flags;
> @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val,
>
> *limit_fail_at = NULL;
> local_irq_save(flags);
> - for (c = counter; c != NULL; c = c->parent) {
> + for (c = counter; c != limit; c = c->parent) {
> spin_lock(&c->lock);
> ret = res_counter_charge_locked(c, val);
> spin_unlock(&c->lock);
> @@ -66,6 +67,12 @@ done:
> return ret;
> }
>
> +int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val,
> + struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
> +{
> + return res_counter_charge_until(counter, NULL, val, limit_fail_at);
> +}
> +
> void res_counter_uncharge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
> {
> if (WARN_ON(counter->usage < val))
> @@ -74,13 +81,15 @@ void res_counter_uncharge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
> counter->usage -= val;
> }
>
> -void res_counter_uncharge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
> +void res_counter_uncharge_until(struct res_counter *counter,
> + struct res_counter *limit,
> + unsigned long val)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
> struct res_counter *c;
>
> local_irq_save(flags);
> - for (c = counter; c != NULL; c = c->parent) {
> + for (c = counter; c != limit; c = c->parent) {
> spin_lock(&c->lock);
> res_counter_uncharge_locked(c, val);
> spin_unlock(&c->lock);
> @@ -88,6 +97,10 @@ void res_counter_uncharge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> }
>
> +void res_counter_uncharge(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
> +{
> + res_counter_uncharge_until(counter, NULL, val);
> +}
>
> static inline unsigned long long *
> res_counter_member(struct res_counter *counter, int member)
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
>
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