Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] cgroup: rstat: Simplified cgroup_base_stat_flush() update last_bstat logic

[Michal Koutný]

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 02:54:10PM +0800, Hao Jia <jiahao.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, so we need @curr to record the bstat value after the sequence fetch is
> completed.

No, I still don't see a problem that it solves. If you find incorrect
data being reported, please explain it more/with an example.

> Yes, but it may not be obvious.
> Another reason is that when we complete an update, we snapshot last_bstat as
> the current bstat, which is better for readers to understand. Arithmetics is
> somewhat obscure.

The readability here is subjective. It'd be interesting to have some
data comparing arithmetics vs copying though.

HTH,
Michal

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