On 02/06/2014 07:29 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 06-02-14 18:15:50, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
>> On 02/06/2014 06:07 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Tue 04-02-14 19:27:19, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> What does this patch change? Actually, it introduces no functional
>>>> changes - it only remove the code trying to find an alias for a memcg
>>>> cache, because it will fail anyway. So this is rather a cleanup.
>>> But this also means that two different memcgs might share the same cache
>>> and so the pages for that cache, no?
>> No, because in this patch I explicitly forbid to merge memcg caches by
>> this hunk:
>>
>> @@ -200,9 +200,11 @@ kmem_cache_create_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>> const char *name, size_t size,
>> */
>> flags &= CACHE_CREATE_MASK;
>>
>> - s = __kmem_cache_alias(memcg, name, size, align, flags, ctor);
>> - if (s)
>> - goto out_unlock;
>> + if (!memcg) {
>> + s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
>> + if (s)
>> + goto out_unlock;
>> + }
> Ohh, that was the missing part. Thanks and sorry I have missed it.
Never mind.
> Maybe it is worth mentioning in the changelog?
Hmm, changelog? This hunk was there from the very beginning :-/
Anyway, I'm going to expand this patch's comment, because it's too short
and difficult to understand.
Thanks.
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