Re: [PATCH 3/6 v4] memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup.

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From ffd1b013fe294a80c12e3f30e85386135a6fb284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:49:59 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 3/6] memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup.
>
> PCG_MOVE_LOCK is used for bit spinlock to avoid race between overwriting
> pc->mem_cgroup and page statistics accounting per memcg.
> This lock helps to avoid the race but the race is very rare because moving
> tasks between cgroup is not a usual job.
> So, it seems using 1bit per page is too costly.
>
> This patch changes this lock as per-memcg spinlock and removes PCG_MOVE_LOCK.
>
> If smaller lock is required, we'll be able to add some hashes but
> I'd like to start from this.
>
> Changelog:
>  - fixed to pass memcg as an argument rather than page_cgroup.
>    and renamed from move_lock_page_cgroup() to move_lock_mem_cgroup()
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems good.  Thanks.

Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>

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