Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] memcg: break out event counters from other stats
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Feb 17 2011 - 00:39:41 EST
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:34:01 -0800
Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For increasing and decreasing per-cpu cgroup usage counters it makes
> sense to use signed types, as single per-cpu values might go negative
> during updates. But this is not the case for only-ever-increasing
> event counters.
>
> All the counters have been signed 64-bit so far, which was enough to
> count events even with the sign bit wasted.
>
> The next patch narrows the usage counters type (on 32-bit CPUs, that
> is), though, so break out the event counters and make them unsigned
> words as they should have been from the start.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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