Re: [RFC][PATCH] memcg: malloc memory for possible node in hotplug

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:05:03 +0800
> Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Current struct mem_cgroup_per_node and struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_node are
>> malloced for all possible node during system boot.
>>
>> This may cause some memory waste, better if move it to memory hotplug.
>
> This adds a fair bit of complexity for what I suspect is a pretty small
> memory saving.  And that memory saving will be on pretty large machines.
>
> Can you please estimate how much memory this change will save?  Taht
> way we can decide whether the additional complexity is worthwhile.
>

Hm, yes, i should get some valuable test result to see whether worth it.

>
> Also, the operations in the new memcg_mem_hotplug_callback() are
> copied-n-pasted from other places in memcontrol.c, such as from
> mem_cgroup_soft_limit_tree_init().  We shouldn't do this - we should be
> able to factor the code so that both mem_cgroup_create() and
> memcg_mem_hotplug_callback() emit simple calls to common helper
> functions.
>
> Thirdly, please don't forget to run scripts/checkpatch.pl!

Sorry for missed that.
Thank you for your review.

-- 
Regards,
--Bob

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