Re: [RFC][2/3] Account and control virtual address space allocations

["Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>   /*
>  + * Check if the current cgroup exceeds its address space limit.
>  + * Returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
>  + */
>  +int mem_cgroup_update_as(struct mm_struct *mm, long nr_pages)
>  +{
>  +       int ret = 0;
>  +       struct mem_cgroup *mem;
>  +       if (mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled)
>  +               return ret;
>  +
>  +       rcu_read_lock();
>  +       mem = rcu_dereference(mm->mem_cgroup);
>  +       css_get(&mem->css);
>  +       rcu_read_unlock();
>  +

How about if this function avoided charging the root cgroup? You'd
save 4 atomic operations on a global data structure on every
mmap/munmap when the virtual address limit cgroup wasn't in use, which
could be significant on a large system. And I don't see situations
where you really need to limit the address space of the root cgroup.

Paul

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