On 2012/11/13 23:30, Michal Hocko wrote: > Hi all, > this patch set tries to make mem_cgroup_iter saner in the way how it > walks hierarchies. css->id based traversal is far from being ideal as it > is not deterministic because it depends on the creation ordering. > > Diffstat looks promising but it is fair the say that the biggest cleanup is > just css_get_next removal. The memcg code has grown a bit but I think it is > worth the resulting outcome (the sanity ;)). > So memcg won't use css id at all, right? Then we can remove the whole css_id stuff, and that's quite a bunch of code. > The first patch fixes a potential misbehaving which I haven't seen but the > fix is needed for the later patches anyway. We could take it alone as well > but I do not have any bug report to base the fix on. > > The second patch replaces css_get_next by cgroup iterators which are > scheduled for 3.8 in Tejun's tree and I depend on the following two patches: > fe1e904c cgroup: implement generic child / descendant walk macros > 7e187c6c cgroup: use rculist ops for cgroup->children > > The third patch is an attempt for simplification of the mem_cgroup_iter. It > basically removes all css usages to make the code easier. The next patch > removes the big while(!memcg) loop around the iterating logic. It could have > been folded into #3 but I rather have the rework separate from the code > moving noise. > > The last patch just removes css_get_next as there is no user for it any > longer. > > I am also thinking that leaf-to-root iteration makes more sense but this > patch is not included in the series yet because I have to think some > more about the justification. > > So far I didn't get to testing but I am posting this early if everybody is > OK with this change. > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>