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

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:55 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [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.

Thanks,
-Kame

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