From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx165.postini.com [74.125.245.165]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2B976B004D for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:16:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:16:25 +0200 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cgroup: Fix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list Message-ID: <20120720141625.GA1426@cmpxchg.org> References: <1342740866.13492.50.camel@schen9-DESK> <20120720135329.GA12440@tiehlicka.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120720135329.GA12440@tiehlicka.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Tim Chen , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Minchan Kim , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , "andi.kleen" , linux-mm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 19-07-12 16:34:26, Tim Chen wrote: > [...] > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c > > index 33dc256..aac5672 100644 > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c > > @@ -779,6 +779,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, > > > > cond_resched(); > > > > + mem_cgroup_uncharge_start(); > > while (!list_empty(page_list)) { > > enum page_references references; > > struct address_space *mapping; > > Is this safe? We have a scheduling point few lines below. What prevents > from task move while we are in the middle of the batch? The batch is accounted in task_struct, so moving a batching task to another CPU shouldn't be a problem. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org