linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] rework mem

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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:12:48 +0900
From:	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
CC:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] rework mem_cgroup iterator

(2012/11/14 10:55), Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2012/11/13 23:30, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> this patch set tries to make mem_cgroup_iter saner in the way how it
>> walks hierarchies. css->id based traversal is far from being ideal as it
>> is not deterministic because it depends on the creation ordering.
>>
>> Diffstat looks promising but it is fair the say that the biggest cleanup is
>> just css_get_next removal. The memcg code has grown a bit but I think it is
>> worth the resulting outcome (the sanity ;)).
>>
> 
> So memcg won't use css id at all, right? Then we can remove the whole css_id
> stuff, and that's quite a bunch of code.
> 
It's used by swap information recording for saving spaces.

Thanks,
-Kame


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