On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 6:04 AM Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The swap page counter is v2 only while memsw is v1 only. As v1 and v2
> controllers cannot be active at the same time, there is no point to keep
> both swap and memsw page counters in mem_cgroup. The previous patch has
> made sure that memsw page counter is updated and accessed only when in
> v1 code paths. So it is now safe to alias the v1 memsw page counter to v2
> swap page counter. This saves 14 long's in the size of mem_cgroup. This
> is a saving of 112 bytes for 64-bit archs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 3 +--
> mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++++---
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index d0b036123c6a..d2a819d7db70 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -216,10 +216,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>
> /* Accounted resources */
> struct page_counter memory;
> - struct page_counter swap;
> + struct page_counter swap; /* memsw (memory+swap) for v1 */
>
> /* Legacy consumer-oriented counters */
> - struct page_counter memsw;
> struct page_counter kmem;
> struct page_counter tcpmem;
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index d219dca5239f..04c3794cdc98 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,11 @@
>
> #include <trace/events/vmscan.h>
>
> +/*
> + * The v1 memsw page counter is aliased to the v2 swap page counter.
> + */
> +#define memsw swap
> +
Personally I would prefer a union instead of #define.
> struct cgroup_subsys memory_cgrp_subsys __read_mostly;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(memory_cgrp_subsys);
>
> @@ -5279,13 +5284,11 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
> memcg->use_hierarchy = true;
> page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, &parent->memory);
> page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, &parent->swap);
> - page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, &parent->memsw);
> page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem);
> page_counter_init(&memcg->tcpmem, &parent->tcpmem);
> } else {
> page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL);
> page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, NULL);
> - page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL);
> page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL);
> page_counter_init(&memcg->tcpmem, NULL);
> /*
> @@ -5414,7 +5417,6 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>
> page_counter_set_max(&memcg->memory, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
> page_counter_set_max(&memcg->swap, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
> - page_counter_set_max(&memcg->memsw, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
> page_counter_set_max(&memcg->kmem, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
> page_counter_set_max(&memcg->tcpmem, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
> page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0);
> --
> 2.18.1
>
