Re: [PATCH 3/5] memcg: use ID instead of pointer in page_cgroup

From: Daisuke Nishimura
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 22:16:41 EST


On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:09:00 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now, addresses of memory cgroup can be calculated by their ID without complex.
> This patch relplaces pc->mem_cgroup from a pointer to a unsigned short.
> On 64bit architecture, this offers us more 6bytes room per page_cgroup.
> Use 2bytes for blkio-cgroup's page tracking. More 4bytes will be used for
> some light-weight concurrent access.
>
> We may able to move this id onto flags field but ...go step by step.
>
> Changelog: 20100824
> - fixed comments, and typo.
> Changelog: 20100811
> - using new rcu APIs, as rcu_dereference_check() etc.
> Changelog: 20100804
> - added comments to page_cgroup.h
> Changelog: 20100730
> - fixed some garbage added by debug code in early stage
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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