Re: [PATCH 0/4] exit: Make unlikely case in mm_update_next_owner() more scalable

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 09:53:17 EST


On 04/26, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> then I suspect that we should be better off reconsidering
> mm->owner and try to come up with something more clever. I've had a
> patch to remove owner few years back.

Yeees, I do remember we discussed this but I forgot everything.

I agree, it would nice to turn mm->owner into mm->mem_cgroup and just kill
the ugly mm_update_next_owner/etc.

Oleg.