lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Sep]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] memcg: make mem_cgroup_read_stat() unsigned
On Wed 23-09-15 00:21:33, Greg Thelen wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:42:13 -0700 Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> I assume it's pretty straightforward to create generic
> >> percpu_counter_array routines which memcg could use. Possibly something
> >> like this could be made general enough could be created to satisfy
> >> vmstat, but less clear.
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg06216.html
> >> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/1057
> >
> > That all sounds rather bogus to me. __percpu_counter_add() doesn't
> > modify struct percpu_counter at all except for when the cpu-local
> > counter overflows the configured batch size. And for the memcg
> > application I suspect we can set the batch size to INT_MAX...
>
> Nod. The memory usage will be a bit larger, but the code reuse is
> attractive. I dusted off Vladimir's
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/710. Next step is to benchmark it
> before posting.

I am definitely in favor of using generic per-cpu counters.

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-09-25 17:41    [W:1.108 / U:0.388 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site