linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/9] memcg: rename mem_cgroup_flush_stats

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Message-ID: <CALvZod50Kh602rFii_=8q+_xdZTqHfDJyc_XNNTixGTqgcSDHA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:25:13 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@...ux.dev>,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/9] memcg: rename mem_cgroup_flush_stats_"delayed" to "ratelimited"

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:16 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed() suggests his is using a delayed_work,
> but this is actually sometimes flushing directly from the callsite.
>
> What it's doing is ratelimited calls. A better name would be
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited().
>
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>