Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/memcontrol.c: remove meaningless while loop in mem_cgroup_iter()

[Jianyu Zhan]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry, I should have been more specific that I was talking about
> mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie path where the iteration for this particular
> zone and priority ended at the last node without finishing the full
> roundtrip last time. This new iteration (prev==NULL) wants to continue
> and it should start a new roundtrip.
>
> Makes sense?

Hi, Michal,

Good catch, it makes sense !
This reminds me of my draft edition of this patch, I specifically handle
this case as:

if (reclaim) {
               if (!memcg ) {
                              iter->generation++;
                              if (!prev) {
                                    memcg = root;
                                    mem_cgroup_iter_update(iter, NULL,
memcg, root,  seq);
                                    goto out_unlock:
                              }
              }
              mem_cgroup_iter_update(iter, last_visited, memcg, root,
                                seq);
              if (!prev && memcg)
                        reclaim->generation = iter->generation;
}

This is literally manual unwinding the second while loop, and thus omit
the while loop,
to save a   mem_cgroup_iter_update() and a mem_cgroup_iter_update()

But it maybe a bit hard to read.

If it is OK, I could resend a new one.

Thanks,
Jianyu Zhan
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