linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/29] cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor

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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2012 11:59:45 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Tim Hockin <thockin@...kin.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/29] cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation
 on bounded ancestor

(2012/05/12 2:44), Glauber Costa wrote:

> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> 
> 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 <paul@...lmenage.org>
> Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@...kin.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>


Where is this function called in this series ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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