Re: [PATCH-cgroup v5 1/2] cgroup/rstat: Optimize cgroup_rstat_updated_list()

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 03:43:26PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> The current design of cgroup_rstat_cpu_pop_updated() is to traverse
> the updated tree in a way to pop out the leaf nodes first before
> their parents. This can cause traversal of multiple nodes before a
> leaf node can be found and popped out. IOW, a given node in the tree
> can be visited multiple times before the whole operation is done. So
> it is not very efficient and the code can be hard to read.
> 
> With the introduction of cgroup_rstat_updated_list() to build a list
> of cgroups to be flushed first before any flushing operation is being
> done, we can optimize the way the updated tree nodes are being popped
> by pushing the parents first to the tail end of the list before their
> children. In this way, most updated tree nodes will be visited only
> once with the exception of the subtree root as we still need to go
> back to its parent and popped it out of its updated_children list.
> This also makes the code easier to read.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

Applied to cgroup/for-6.8 with a small comment edit.

...
> + * Iteratively traverse down the cgroup_rstat_cpu updated tree level by
> + * level and push all the parents first before their next level children
> + * into a singly linked list built from the tail backward like "pushing"
> + * cgroups into a stack. The parent is by the caller.

I found the last sentence a bit difficult to understand and changed it to
"The root is pushed by the caller." That's what you meant, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun