linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH 2/4] mm: move mem_cgroup_uncharge out of __page_cache

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:35:43 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.com, hughd@...gle.com,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 2/4] mm: move mem_cgroup_uncharge out of
 __page_cache_release()

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 09:54:05AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/13/19 10:13 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 6/13/19 4:39 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:56:47AM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> > > > The later patch would make THP deferred split shrinker memcg aware, but
> > > > it needs page->mem_cgroup information in THP destructor, which
> > > > is called
> > > > after mem_cgroup_uncharge() now.
> > > > 
> > > > So, move mem_cgroup_uncharge() from __page_cache_release() to compound
> > > > page destructor, which is called by both THP and other compound pages
> > > > except HugeTLB.  And call it in __put_single_page() for single order
> > > > page.
> > > 
> > > If I read the patch correctly, it will change behaviour for pages with
> > > NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR. Have you considered it? Are you sure it will not
> > > break
> > > anything?
> > 
> 
> Hi Kirill,
> 
> Did this solve your concern? Any more comments on this series?

Everyting looks good now. You can use my

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

for the series.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov