linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] slab: use cgroup ino for naming per memcg caches

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1504081323390.20694@gentwo.org>
Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:24:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] slab: use cgroup ino for naming per memcg caches

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> Yeah, I think cache merging is a good argument for grouping memcg caches
> under /sys/kernel/slab/<slab-name>/cgroup/. We cannot maintain symlinks
> for merged memcg caches, because when a memcg cache is created we do not
> have names of caches the new cache is merged with. If memcg caches were
> listed under /sys/kernel/slab/ along with global ones, absence of the
> symlinks would lead to confusion.

The point of the unique name creation is to not have to use the name given
by the user for the slab. You can generate a unique identifier and use
that as a target for the symlink.


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