Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove unneeded preempt_disable

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-18T07:00:06Z

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:50:53 -0700
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> wrote:

> Both mem_cgroup_charge_statistics() and mem_cgroup_move_account() were
> unnecessarily disabling preemption when adjusting per-cpu counters:
> preempt_disable()
> __this_cpu_xxx()
> __this_cpu_yyy()
> preempt_enable()
>
> This change does not disable preemption and thus CPU switch is possible
> within these routines. This does not cause a problem because the total
> of all cpu counters is summed when reporting stats. Now both
> mem_cgroup_charge_statistics() and mem_cgroup_move_account() look like:
> this_cpu_xxx()
> this_cpu_yyy()
>
> Reported-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>

Thank you.
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>