From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] memcg: operate on page quantities internally
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:37:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110209133757.735b08ab.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297249313-23746-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:01:49 +0100
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patch set converts the memcg charge and uncharge paths to operate
> on multiples of pages instead of bytes. It already was a good idea
> before, but with the merge of THP we made a real mess by specifying
> huge pages alternatingly in bytes or in number of regular pages.
>
> If I did not miss anything, this should leave only res_counter and
> user-visible stuff in bytes. The ABI probably won't change, so next
> up is converting res_counter to operate on page quantities.
>
I worry that there will be unconverted code and we'll end up adding
bugs.
A way to minimise the risk is to force compilation errors and warnings:
rename fields and functions, reorder function arguments. Did your
patches do this as much as they could have?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-09 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-09 11:01 [patch 0/4] memcg: operate on page quantities internally Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 11:01 ` [patch 1/4] memcg: keep only one charge cancelling function Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 23:51 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-10 12:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 11:01 ` [patch 2/4] memcg: convert per-cpu stock from bytes to page granularity Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 23:52 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-09 11:01 ` [patch 3/4] memcg: convert uncharge batching " Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 23:53 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-09 11:01 ` [patch 4/4] memcg: unify charge/uncharge quantities to units of pages Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 23:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-10 12:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 21:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-02-10 12:40 ` [patch 0/4] memcg: operate on page quantities internally Johannes Weiner
2011-02-09 23:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-10 12:42 ` Johannes Weiner
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