Re: [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jan 05 2012 - 12:35:41 EST


Hello, guys.

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:10:57AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> > In cgroup_attach_proc, we indirectly call find_existing_css_set 3
> > times. It is an expensive call so we want to call it a minimum
> > of times. This patch only calls it once and stores the result so
> > that it can be used later on when we call cgroup_task_migrate.
> >
> > This required modifying cgroup_task_migrate to take the new css_set
> > (which we obtained from find_css_set) as a parameter. The nice side
> > effect of this is that cgroup_task_migrate is now identical for
> > cgroup_attach_task and cgroup_attach_proc. It also now returns a
> > void since it can never fail.
> >
> > Changes in V4:
> > * https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/22/421 (Li Zefan)
> > * Avoid GFP_KERNEL (sleep) in rcu_read_lock by getting css_set in
> > a separate loop not under an rcu_read_lock
> > Changes in V3:
> > * https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/22/13 (Li Zefan)
> > * Fixed earlier bug by creating a seperate patch to remove tasklist_lock
> > Changes in V2:
> > * https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/20/372 (Tejun Heo)
> > * Move find_css_set call into loop which creates the flex array
> > * Author
> > * Kill css_set_refs and use group_size instead
> > * Fix an off-by-one error in counting css_set refs
> > * Add a retval check in out_list_teardown
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I like this series but it's too late for the current merge window.
I'll apply them on for-3.4 once this merge window closes. If I don't,
please ping me.

Thank you.

--
tejun
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