Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] memcg: make memcg's life cycle the same as cgroup

Michal Hocko
2013-04-04T12:00:49Z

On Wed 03-04-13 17:11:15, Li Zefan wrote:
> (I'll be off from my office soon, and I won't be responsive in the following
> 3 days.)
>
> I'm working on converting memcg to use cgroup->id, and then we can kill css_id.
>
> Now memcg has its own refcnt, so when a cgroup is destroyed, the memcg can
> still be alive. This patchset converts memcg to always use css_get/put, so
> memcg will have the same life cycle as its corresponding cgroup, and then
> it's always safe for memcg to use cgroup->id.
>
> The historical reason that memcg didn't use css_get in some cases, is that
> cgroup couldn't be removed if there're still css refs. The situation has
> changed so that rmdir a cgroup will succeed regardless css refs, but won't
> be freed until css refs goes down to 0.
>
> This is an early post, and it's NOT TESTED. I just want to see if the changes
> are fine in general.

yes, I like the approach and it looks correct as well (some minor things
mentioned in the patches). Thanks a lot Li! This will make our lifes much
easier. The separate ref counting was PITA especially after
introduction of kmem accounting which made its usage even more trickier.

> btw, after this patchset I think we don't need to free memcg via RCU, because
> cgroup is already freed in RCU callback.

But this depends on changes waiting in for-3.10 branch, right?
Anyway, I think we should be safe with the workqueue based releasing as
well once mem_cgroup_{get,put} are gone, right?

> Note this patchset is based on a few memcg fixes I sent (but hasn't been
> accepted)
>
> --
> kernel/cgroup.c | 10 ++++++++
> mm/memcontrol.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------------------------
> 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)

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Michal Hocko
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