Re: [PATCH v1 6/9] memcg: sleep during flushing stats in safe contexts

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On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:16 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently, all contexts that flush memcg stats do so with sleeping not
> allowed. Some of these contexts are perfectly safe to sleep in, such as
> reading cgroup files from userspace or the background periodic flusher.
>
> Refactor the code to make mem_cgroup_flush_stats() non-atomic (aka
> sleepable), and provide a separate atomic version. The atomic version is
> used in reclaim, refault, writeback, and in mem_cgroup_usage(). All
> other code paths are left to use the non-atomic version. This includes
> callbacks for userspace reads and the periodic flusher.
>
> Since refault is the only caller of mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(),
> this function is changed to call the atomic version of
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats(). Reclaim and refault code paths are modified
> to do non-atomic flushing in separate later patches -- so
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited() will eventually become non-atomic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>





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