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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/list_lru: Fix possible race in memcg_reparent_list_lru_node()
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:46:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkVcbElWjomA7ofF@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220331063956.5uqnab64cqnmcwyr@google.com>

On Thu 31-03-22 06:39:56, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 07:48:45PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > 
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > 
> > But honestly, I’d drop the original optimization together with
> > the fix, if only there is no _real world_ data on the problem and
> > the improvement. It seems like it has started as a nice simple
> > improvement, but the race makes it complex and probably not worth
> > the added complexity and fragility.
> 
> I agree with dropping the original optimization as it is not really
> fixing an observed issue which may justify adding some complexity.

Completely agreed. The patch as it is proposed is not really acceptable
IMHO and I have to say I am worried that this is not the first time we
are in a situation when a follow up fixes or unrelated patches are
growing in complexity to fit on top of a performance optimizations which
do not refer to any actual numbers.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-31  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-30 17:26 Waiman Long
2022-03-30 19:46 ` Roman Gushchin
2022-03-31  2:14 ` Andrew Morton
2022-03-31  2:48   ` Roman Gushchin
2022-03-31  6:39     ` Shakeel Butt
2022-03-31  7:46       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2022-04-01  1:11         ` Andrew Morton
2022-04-01  4:23           ` Shakeel Butt
2022-04-01  4:30           ` Muchun Song
2022-04-01 11:28           ` Michal Hocko

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