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From: ranxiaokai627@163.com
To: mkoutny@suse.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, hughd@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
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	ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn, ranxiaokai627@163.com,
	roman.gushchin@linux.dev, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
	shuah@kernel.org, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kselftests: cgroup: update kmem test tolerance for multi-memcg stock
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:03:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260415110356.3546-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vjhou23d62pvtdqsan2nrlldkwf27qchpfmzf4yoetqn2gdhbj@cfiuqzzotbxf>

>Hello Xiaokai.
>
>On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 11:05:23AM +0000, ranxiaokai627@163.com wrote:
>> Fixes: f735eebe55f8 ("memcg: multi-memcg percpu charge cache")
>
>An interesting catch.
>
>> -#define MAX_VMSTAT_ERROR (4096 * 64 * get_nprocs())
>> +#define NR_MEMCG_STOCK 7
>> +#define MAX_VMSTAT_ERROR (4096 * 64 * NR_MEMCG_STOCK * get_nprocs())
>
>When you touch this, I think this could be factored into it too:
>
>+#define MAX_VMSTAT_ERROR (sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) * 64 * NR_MEMCG_STOCK * get_nprocs())

Thanks for the review, yes, this will improve the test' portability
across architectures with different page sizes.

>And given how much the selftest depends in this implementation
>detail(?), I see that there are other selftests that include directly
>from the tree, I'd suggest also
>#include "../../../../include/linux/memcontrol.h"
>
>and use the constant from there (i.e. move NR_MEMCG_STOCK to there too).
>
>That should make the selftest more flexible, resilient to future changes
>and it'd document ramification of these constants too.

Agreed. Including memcontrol.h ensures the test stays in sync with
kernel changes.

>Thanks,
>Michal



  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-15 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-14 11:05 [PATCH 0/2] kselftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem false failures ranxiaokai627
2026-04-14 11:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] kselftests: cgroup: update kmem test tolerance for multi-memcg stock ranxiaokai627
2026-04-15  9:53   ` Michal Koutný
2026-04-15 11:03     ` ranxiaokai627 [this message]
2026-04-14 11:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] kselftests: cgroup: account for slab memory in test_percpu_basic ranxiaokai627

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