From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove unnecessary thp check at page stat accounting
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:41:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124084133.GD1660@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALWz4ixufzgi2kDRgTMAzty-S2AKMmPfqdGc1sBRNFJxf-WTAQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:11:11PM -0800, Ying Han wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:14 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Thank you very much for reviewing previous RFC series.
> > This is a patch against memcg-devel and linux-next (can by applied without HUNKs).
> >
> > ==
> >
> > From 64641b360839b029bb353fbd95f7554cc806ed05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:08:33 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH] memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in mem_cgroup_update_page_stat()
> >
> > commit 58b318ecf(memcg-devel)
> > memcg: make mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup() more efficient
> > removes move_lock_page_cgroup() in thp-split path.
> >
> > So, We do not have to check PageTransHuge in mem_cgroup_update_page_stat
> > and fallback into the locked accounting because both move charge and thp
> > split up are done with compound_lock so they cannot race. update vs.
> > move is protected by the mem_cgroup_stealed sufficiently.
>
> Sorry, i don't see we changed the "move charge" to "move account" ?
move_account() moves charges. IMO, it's the function that is a
misnomer and "moving charges" is less ambiguous since we account
several different things in the memory controller.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 7:14 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 9:34 ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-20 0:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-20 3:25 ` [PATCH v3] " KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-20 8:43 ` Michal Hocko
2012-01-23 20:11 ` [PATCH] " Ying Han
2012-01-24 8:41 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2012-01-25 18:54 ` Ying Han
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