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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] memcg: move page-freeing code outside of lock
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:39:35 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik7r3naRV6gFfN7+sLAbgAoiMkXwKUwY6nV5FH+@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300763079.1483.21.camel@leonhard>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2011-03-22 (화), 08:59 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki:
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:54:15 +0900
> > Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> >
> > What is the benefit of this patch ?
> >
> > -Kame
> >
>
> Oh, I just thought generally it'd better call such a (potentially)
> costly function outside of locks and it could reduce few of theoretical
> contentions between swapons and/or offs. If it doesn't help any
> realistic cases I don't mind discarding it.

swapoff is a rare path, I would not worry about it too much at all.

Balbir

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-18 12:54 [PATCH 1/3] memcg: mark init_section_page_cgroup() properly Namhyung Kim
2011-03-18 12:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] memcg: fix off-by-one when calculating swap cgroup map length Namhyung Kim
2011-03-21 23:58   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-03-22  3:13     ` Balbir Singh
2011-03-18 12:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] memcg: move page-freeing code outside of lock Namhyung Kim
2011-03-21 23:59   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-03-22  3:04     ` Namhyung Kim
2011-03-22  3:09       ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2011-03-22  4:56       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-03-22 10:06         ` Namhyung Kim
2011-03-23  4:36           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-03-23 11:59             ` [PATCH] memcg: move page-freeing code out " Namhyung Kim
2011-03-23 23:37               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-03-21 23:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] memcg: mark init_section_page_cgroup() properly KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-03-22  3:10   ` Balbir Singh
2011-04-01  1:18 ` Namhyung Kim

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