Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: make sure memory.events is uptodate when waking pollers

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 05-04-18 13:55:16, Johannes Weiner wrote:
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> >From 4369ce161a9085aa408f2eca54f9de72909ee1b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:53:55 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcg: make sure memory.events is uptodate when waking
>  pollers
> 
> a983b5ebee57 ("mm: memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat
> reporting") added per-cpu drift to all memory cgroup stats and events
> shown in memory.stat and memory.events.
> 
> For memory.stat this is acceptable. But memory.events issues file
> notifications, and somebody polling the file for changes will be
> confused when the counters in it are unchanged after a wakeup.
> 
> Luckily, the events in memory.events - MEMCG_LOW, MEMCG_HIGH,
> MEMCG_MAX, MEMCG_OOM - are sufficiently rare and high-level that we
> don't need per-cpu buffering for them: MEMCG_HIGH and MEMCG_MAX would
> be the most frequent, but they're counting invocations of reclaim,
> which is a complex operation that touches many shared cachelines.
> 
> This splits memory.events from the generic VM events and tracks them
> in their own, unbuffered atomic counters. That's also cleaner, as it
> eliminates the ugly enum nesting of VM and cgroup events.

I agree with the patch I am just worried about the naming a bit. It is
quite confusing TBH. events should be vm_events and memory_events should
be limit_events or something like that.

> Fixes: a983b5ebee57 ("mm: memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat reporting")
> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Anyway
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs