Re: [PATCH 3/7] memcg: move charges to root at rmdir()

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Hello,

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 08:22:42PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> As recently discussed, Tejun Heo, the cgroup maintainer, tries to
> remove ->pre_destroy() and cgroup will never return -EBUSY at rmdir().

I'm not trying to remove ->pre_destory() per-se.  I want to remove css
ref draining and ->pre_destroy() vetoing cgroup removal.  Probably
better wording would be "tries to simplify removal path such that
removal always succeeds".

> To do that, in memcg, handling case of use_hierarchy==false is a problem.
> 
> We move memcg's charges to its parent at rmdir(). If use_hierarchy==true,
> it's already accounted in the parent, no problem. If use_hierarchy==false,
> we cannot guarantee we can move all charges to the parent.
> 
> This patch changes the behavior to move all charges to root_mem_cgroup
> if use_hierarchy=false. It seems this matches semantics of use_hierarchy==false,which means parent and child has no hierarchical relationship.

Maybe better to break the above line?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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