Re: [PATCH 9/12] memcg allocate all page_cgroup at boot

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:00:42 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:33:53 +0530
> > Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> Can we make this patch indepedent of the flags changes and push it in ASAP.
> >>
> > Need much work....Hmm..rewrite all again ? 
> > 
> 
> I don't think you'll need to do a major rewrite? Will you? 
yes. LOCK bit is on page_cgroup->flags bit.
Then, I'll check all places which modify page_cgroup->flags again and
take lock always.
This means I'll have to check dead-lock and preemption and irq-disable, again.

> My concern is that this patch does too much to be a single patch.
> Consider someone trying to do a
> git-bisect to identify a problem? It is hard to review as well and I think the
> patch that just removes struct page member can go in faster.
> 
Please apply atomic_flags first. this later.

> It will be easier to test/debug as well, we'll know if the problem is because of
> new page_cgroup being outside struct page rather then guessing if it was the
> atomic ops that caused the problem.
> 

atomic_ops patch just rewrite exisiting behavior.

Thanks,
-Kame

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