linux-kernel - [PATCH] cgroup: Make cgroup_rstat_updated() ready for root cgroup usage

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Date:   Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:49:13 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     lizefan@...wei.com, hannes@...xchg.org
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, guro@...com,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: Make cgroup_rstat_updated() ready for root cgroup
 usage

>From b7be022bf811d02605098fa61b7545bc146b78e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:45:20 -0700

cgroup_rstat_updated() ensures that the cgroup's rstat is linked to
the parent.  If there's no parent, it never gets linked and the
function ends up grabbing and releasing the cgroup_rstat_lock each
time for no reason which can be expensive.

This hasn't been a problem till now because nobody was calling the
function for the root cgroup but rstat is gonna be exposed to
controllers and use cases, so let's get ready.  Make
cgroup_rstat_updated() an no-op for the root cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
---
Hello,

This should address the scalability issue reported by kenrel test bot.
All git branches updated accordingly.

Thanks.

 kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
index 0d1d5fc..9a30b51 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ void cgroup_rstat_updated(struct cgroup *cgrp, int cpu)
 	struct cgroup *parent;
 	unsigned long flags;

+	/* nothing to do for root */
+	if (!cgroup_parent(cgrp))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * Paired with the one in cgroup_rstat_cpu_pop_upated().  Either we
 	 * see NULL updated_next or they see our updated stat.
-- 
2.9.5