linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] cgroup: rstat: support cgroup1

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Message-ID: <YC6eojaku6oaOqA2@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:06:42 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] cgroup: rstat: support cgroup1

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 04:45:11PM +0100, Michal Koutný wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 03:52:59PM -0500, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
> > In this case, we're talking about a relatively small data structure
> > and the overhead is per mountpoint.
> IIUC, it is per each mountpoint's number of cgroups. But I still accept
> the argument above. Furthermore, this can be changed later.

Oops, you're right of course.

> > The default root group has statically preallocated percpu data before
> > and after this patch. See cgroup.c:
> I stand corrected, the comment is still valid.
> 
> Therefore,
> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>

Thanks for your reviews, Michal!