Re: [PATCH 11/11] cgroup: use percpu refcnt for cgroup_subsys_states

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 14-06-13 18:15:12, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 02:55:39PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 12-06-13 21:04:58, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > [...]
> > > +/**
> > > + * cgroup_destroy_locked - the first stage of cgroup destruction
> > > + * @cgrp: cgroup to be destroyed
> > > + *
> > > + * css's make use of percpu refcnts whose killing latency shouldn't be
> > > + * exposed to userland and are RCU protected.  Also, cgroup core needs to
> > > + * guarantee that css_tryget() won't succeed by the time ->css_offline() is
> > > + * invoked.  To satisfy all the requirements, destruction is implemented in
> > > + * the following two steps.
> > > + *
> > > + * s1. Verify @cgrp can be destroyed and mark it dying.  Remove all
> > > + *     userland visible parts and start killing the percpu refcnts of
> > > + *     css's.  Set up so that the next stage will be kicked off once all
> > > + *     the percpu refcnts are confirmed to be killed.
> > > + *
> > > + * s2. Invoke ->css_offline(), mark the cgroup dead and proceed with the
> > > + *     rest of destruction.  Once all cgroup references are gone, the
> > > + *     cgroup is RCU-freed.
> > > + *
> > > + * This function implements s1.  After this step, @cgrp is gone as far as
> > > + * the userland is concerned and a new cgroup with the same name may be
> > > + * created.  As cgroup doesn't care about the names internally, this
> > > + * doesn't cause any problem.
> > 
> > Glauber is this asumption correct for kmem caches naming scheme?
> > I guess it should, but I would rather be sure this won't blow up later
> > specially when caches might live longer than css_offline.
> > 
> 
> We append names to caches, but never the name alone, always (kmemcg_id:name)
> So you can reuse the same name as many times as you want (from the kmemcg
> perspective), provided you use different kmemcg_ids. Because kmemcg_ids are
> dissociated from css_ids (partly because I was already seeing people talking
> about wanting to free the css_ids earlier), we should not have any problems
> with this.

Thanks for double checking, Glauber!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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