Re: [PATCH] memcg: put soft limit reclaim out of way if the excess tree is empty

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Aug 01 2016 - 13:41:01 EST


On Mon 01-08-16 13:17:17, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > @@ -2564,7 +2559,13 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
> > return 0;
> >
> > mctz = soft_limit_tree_node(pgdat->node_id);
> > - if (soft_limit_tree_empty(mctz))
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Do not even bother to check the largest node if the node
>
> root

Fixed

>
> > + * is empty. Do it lockless to prevent lock bouncing. Races
> > + * are acceptable as soft limit is best effort anyway.
> > + */
> > + if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mctz->rb_root))
> > return 0;
>
> Other than that, looks good. Please retain my
>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs