Re: [patch v2 3/6] memcg: rework mem_cgroup_iter to use cgroup iterators

[Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

(2012/11/27 3:47), Michal Hocko wrote:
> mem_cgroup_iter curently relies on css->id when walking down a group
> hierarchy tree. This is really awkward because the tree walk depends on
> the groups creation ordering. The only guarantee is that a parent node
> is visited before its children.
> Example
>   1) mkdir -p a a/d a/b/c
>   2) mkdir -a a/b/c a/d
> Will create the same trees but the tree walks will be different:
>   1) a, d, b, c
>   2) a, b, c, d
> 
> 574bd9f7 (cgroup: implement generic child / descendant walk macros) has
> introduced generic cgroup tree walkers which provide either pre-order
> or post-order tree walk. This patch converts css->id based iteration
> to pre-order tree walk to keep the semantic with the original iterator
> where parent is always visited before its subtree.
> 
> cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre suggests using post_create and
> pre_destroy for proper synchronization with groups addidition resp.
> removal. This implementation doesn't use those because a new memory
> cgroup is fully initialized in mem_cgroup_create and css reference
> counting enforces that the group is alive for both the last seen cgroup
> and the found one resp. it signals that the group is dead and it should
> be skipped.
> 
> If the reclaim cookie is used we need to store the last visited group
> into the iterator so we have to be careful that it doesn't disappear in
> the mean time. Elevated reference count on the css keeps it alive even
> though the group have been removed (parked waiting for the last dput so
> that it can be freed).
> 
> V2
> - use css_{get,put} for iter->last_visited rather than
>    mem_cgroup_{get,put} because it is stronger wrt. cgroup life cycle
> - cgroup_next_descendant_pre expects NULL pos for the first iterartion
>    otherwise it might loop endlessly for intermediate node without any
>    children.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>


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