Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Make cgroup_rstat_updated() ready for root cgroup usage

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 17:36:34 EST


On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 02:49:13PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From b7be022bf811d02605098fa61b7545bc146b78e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:45:20 -0700
>
> cgroup_rstat_updated() ensures that the cgroup's rstat is linked to
> the parent. If there's no parent, it never gets linked and the
> function ends up grabbing and releasing the cgroup_rstat_lock each
> time for no reason which can be expensive.
>
> This hasn't been a problem till now because nobody was calling the
> function for the root cgroup but rstat is gonna be exposed to
> controllers and use cases, so let's get ready. Make
> cgroup_rstat_updated() an no-op for the root cgroup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to cgroup/for-4.18.

Thanks.

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tejun