(2013/03/05 22:10), Glauber Costa wrote:
> Since the root is special anyway, and we always get its figures from
> global counters anyway, there is no make all cgroups its descendants,
> wrt res_counters. The sad effect of doing that is that we need to lock
> the root for all allocations, since it is a common ancestor of
> everybody.
>
> Not having the root as a common ancestor should lead to better
> scalability for not-uncommon case of tasks in the cgroup being
> node-bound to different nodes in NUMA systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 6019a32..252dc00 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -6464,7 +6464,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *cont)
> memcg->oom_kill_disable = parent->oom_kill_disable;
> memcg->swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(parent);
>
> - if (parent->use_hierarchy) {
> + if (parent && !mem_cgroup_is_root(parent) && parent->use_hierarchy) {
> res_counter_init(&memcg->res, &parent->res);
> res_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, &parent->memsw);
> res_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem);
>
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