linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] misc_cgroup: introduce misc.events and misc

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Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:51:44 -0700
From:   Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@...gle.com>
To:     brookxu <brookxu.cn@...il.com>
Cc:     tj@...nel.org, lizefan.x@...edance.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        mkoutny@...e.com, corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] misc_cgroup: introduce misc.events and misc_events.local

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:01 PM brookxu <brookxu.cn@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@...cent.com>
>
> Introduce misc.events and misc.events.local to make it easier for

I thought Tejun only gave go ahead for misc.events and not for
misc.events.local.

> us to understand the pressure of resources. The main idea comes
> from mem_cgroup. Currently only the 'max' event is implemented,
> which indicates the times the resource exceeds the limit.
>

For future emails, please provide the links to previous discussions
like [1], [2],...

> @@ -36,6 +41,8 @@ enum misc_res_type {
>  struct misc_res {
>         unsigned long max;
>         atomic_long_t usage;
> +       atomic_long_t events[MISC_CG_EVENT_TYPES];

Since there is only one event type for now, my recommendation is to
not use the array and just use a single atomic_long_t.

>
> +static const char *const misc_event_name[] = {
> +       "max"
> +};
> +

We will not need it if you remove the array in struct misc_res.

Thanks
Vipin