linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 21:29:40 +0800
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, hughd@...gle.com,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware



On 5/30/19 8:07 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:44:22PM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> index bc74d6a..9ff5fab 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> @@ -316,6 +316,12 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>>   	struct list_head event_list;
>>   	spinlock_t event_list_lock;
>>   
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>> +	struct list_head split_queue;
>> +	unsigned long split_queue_len;
>> +	spinlock_t split_queue_lock;
> Maybe we should wrap there into a struct and have helper that would return
> pointer to the struct which is right for the page: from pgdat or from
> memcg, depending on the situation?
>
> This way we will be able to kill most of code duplication, right?

Yes, it sounds simpler than using list_lru.

>