Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] cgroup/rstat: Optimize cgroup_rstat_updated_list()

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:01:22PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
...
> > + * Recursively traverse down the cgroup_rstat_cpu updated tree and push
> > + * parent first before its children into a singly linked list built from
> > + * the tail backward like "pushing" cgroups into a stack. The parent is
> > + * pushed by the caller. The recursion depth is the depth of the current
> > + * updated subtree.
> > + */
> > +static struct cgroup *cgroup_rstat_push_children(struct cgroup *head,
> > +				struct cgroup_rstat_cpu *prstatc, int cpu)
> > +{
> > +	struct cgroup *child, *parent;
> > +	struct cgroup_rstat_cpu *crstatc;
> > +
> > +	parent = head;
> > +	child = prstatc->updated_children;
> > +	prstatc->updated_children = parent;
> > +
> > +	/* updated_next is parent cgroup terminated */
> > +	while (child != parent) {
> > +		child->rstat_flush_next = head;
> > +		head = child;
> > +		crstatc = cgroup_rstat_cpu(child, cpu);
> > +		if (crstatc->updated_children != child)
> > +			head = cgroup_rstat_push_children(head, crstatc, cpu);
> > +		child = crstatc->updated_next;
> > +		crstatc->updated_next = NULL;
> > +	}
> > +	return head;

The recursion bothers me. We don't really have a hard limit on nesting
depth. We might need to add another pointer field but can make this
iterative, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun