Re: [patch 1/3] mm: embed the memcg pointer directly into struct page

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:09:42AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Joonsoo,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:02:08PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 11:15:54PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers.  To allow users to
> > > disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
> > > allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them
> > > and struct page.
> > 
> > Hello, Johannes.
> > 
> > I'd like to leave this translation layer.
> > Could you just disable that code with #ifdef until next user comes?
> > 
> > In our company, we uses PAGE_OWNER on mm tree which is the feature
> > saying who allocates the page. To use PAGE_OWNER needs modifying
> > struct page and then needs re-compile. This re-compile makes us difficult
> > to use this feature. So, we decide to implement run-time configurable
> > PAGE_OWNER through page_cgroup's translation layer code. Moreover, with
> > this infrastructure, I plan to implement some other debugging feature.
> > 
> > Because of my laziness, it didn't submitted to LKML. But, I will
> > submit it as soon as possible. If the code is removed, I would
> > copy-and-paste the code, but, it would cause lose of the history on
> > that code. So if possible, I'd like to leave that code now.
> 
> Please re-introduce this code when your new usecase is ready to be
> upstreamed.  There is little reason to burden an unrelated feature
> with a sizable chunk of dead code for a vague future user.

Okay.

Thanks.

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