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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:32:45 -0800
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@...gle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, 
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, 
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, android-mm@...gle.com, 
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...gle.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memcg: Don't periodically flush stats when memcg
 is disabled

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> The root memcg is onlined even when memcg is disabled. When it's onlined
> a 2 second periodic stat flush is started, but no stat flushing is
> required when memcg is disabled because there can be no child memcgs.
> Most calls to flush memcg stats are avoided when memcg is disabled as a
> result of the mem_cgroup_disabled check added in 7d7ef0a4686a
> ("mm: memcg: restore subtree stats flushing"), but the periodic flushing
> started in mem_cgroup_css_online is not. Skip it.
>
> Fixes: aa48e47e3906 ("memcg: infrastructure to flush memcg stats")
> Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>

Thanks!

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