linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/3] mm: memcontrol: eliminate charge reparenting

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Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:17:54 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] mm: memcontrol: eliminate charge reparenting

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:48:23PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 20-09-14 16:00:32, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we've come a looong way when it comes to the basic cgroups model, and
> > the recent changes there open up a lot of opportunity to make drastic
> > simplifications to memory cgroups as well.
> > 
> > The decoupling of css from the user-visible cgroup, word-sized per-cpu
> > css reference counters, and css iterators that include offlined groups
> > means we can take per-charge css references, continue to reclaim from
> > offlined groups, and so get rid of the error-prone charge reparenting.
> > 
> > Combined with the higher-order reclaim fixes, lockless page counters,
> > and memcg iterator simplification I sent on Friday, the memory cgroup
> > core code is finally no longer the biggest file in mm/.  Yay!
> 
> Yeah, the code reduction (as per the diffstat - I didn't get to the code
> yet) seems really promising.

:)

> > These patches are based on mmotm + the above-mentioned changes
> 
> > + Tj's percpu-refcount conversion to atomic_long_t.
> 
> This is https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/20/11 right?

Yep, exactly.  All these moving parts are now in -next, though, so as
soon as Andrew flushes his tree for 3.18, I'll rebase and resubmit.

Thanks!
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