[Devel] Re: [PATCH -mmotm 1/5] memcg: disable irq at page cgroup lock

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:10:39 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-03-19 10:23:32]:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:55 +0530
> > Balbir Singh <balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-03-18 13:35:27]:
> > 
> > > > Then, no probelm. It's ok to add mem_cgroup_udpate_stat() indpendent from
> > > > mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped(). The look may be messy but it's not your
> > > > fault. But please write "why add new function" to patch description.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm sorry for wasting your time.
> > > 
> > > Do we need to go down this route? We could check the stat and do the
> > > correct thing. In case of FILE_MAPPED, always grab page_cgroup_lock
> > > and for others potentially look at trylock. It is OK for different
> > > stats to be protected via different locks.
> > > 
> > 
> > I _don't_ want to see a mixture of spinlock and trylock in a function.
> >
> 
> A well documented well written function can help. The other thing is to
> of-course solve this correctly by introducing different locking around
> the statistics. Are you suggesting the later?
> 

No. As I wrote.
	- don't modify codes around FILE_MAPPED in this series.
	- add a new functions for new statistics
Then,
	- think about clean up later, after we confirm all things work as expected.

Thanks,
-Kame


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