Re: [PATCH] Help Resource Counters Scale better (v4.1)

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> [2009-08-13 01:28:57]:

> Balbir Singh wrote:
> > Hi, Andrew,
> >
> > Does this look better, could you please replace the older patch with
> > this one.
> >
> > 1. I did a quick compile test
> > 2. Ran scripts/checkpatch.pl
> >
> 
> In general, seems reasonable to me as quick hack for root cgroup.
> thank you.
> 
> Reviewed-by: KAMEAZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>

Thanks, yes, we still need to do the percpu counter work, but this
will give us breathing space to do it correctly and define strict and
non-strict accounting.
 
> Finally, we'll have to do some rework for light-weight res_counter.
> But yes, it will take some amount of time.
> My only concern is account leak, but, if some leak, it's current code's
> bug, not this patch.
> 

Yeah.. we'll need to check for that.

> And..hmm...I like following style other than open-coded.
> ==
> int mem_coutner_charge(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
> {
>       if (mem_cgroup_is_root(mem))
>                return 0; // always success
>       return res_counter_charge(....)
> }
> ==
> But maybe nitpick.
> 

Yes, we can refactor for simplication, but we'll need some exceptions.
I'll do that as an add-on patch.



-- 
	Balbir

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