[PATCH 9/9] memcg: simplify v1 event ratelimiting

From: Shakeel Butt

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 16:37:08 EST


Thresholds are the only periodic v1 event left, so the target enum, the
per-cpu target array and the switch in memcg1_event_ratelimit() all
collapse to a single counter.

memcg1_check_events() no longer needs a node id either, which lets
memcg1_uncharge_batch() drop its nid argument and struct
uncharge_gather drop the field feeding it.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 43 +++++++++++--------------------------------
mm/memcontrol-v1.h | 4 ++--
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +---
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index 475f998b7643..bf2c7d53b01b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -200,15 +200,9 @@ static void mem_cgroup_threshold(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
* to trigger some periodic events. This is straightforward and better
* than using jiffies etc. to handle periodic memcg event.
*/
-enum mem_cgroup_events_target {
- MEM_CGROUP_TARGET_THRESH,
- MEM_CGROUP_TARGET_SOFTLIMIT,
- MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS,
-};
-
struct memcg1_events_percpu {
unsigned long nr_page_events;
- unsigned long targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS];
+ unsigned long threshold_target;
};

static void memcg1_charge_statistics(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nr_pages)
@@ -225,43 +219,28 @@ static void memcg1_charge_statistics(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nr_pages)
}

#define THRESHOLDS_EVENTS_TARGET 128
-#define SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_TARGET 1024

-static bool memcg1_event_ratelimit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- enum mem_cgroup_events_target target)
+static bool memcg1_event_ratelimit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
unsigned long val, next;

val = __this_cpu_read(memcg->events_percpu->nr_page_events);
- next = __this_cpu_read(memcg->events_percpu->targets[target]);
+ next = __this_cpu_read(memcg->events_percpu->threshold_target);
/* from time_after() in jiffies.h */
if ((long)(next - val) < 0) {
- switch (target) {
- case MEM_CGROUP_TARGET_THRESH:
- next = val + THRESHOLDS_EVENTS_TARGET;
- break;
- case MEM_CGROUP_TARGET_SOFTLIMIT:
- next = val + SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_TARGET;
- break;
- default:
- break;
- }
- __this_cpu_write(memcg->events_percpu->targets[target], next);
+ __this_cpu_write(memcg->events_percpu->threshold_target,
+ val + THRESHOLDS_EVENTS_TARGET);
return true;
}
return false;
}

-/*
- * Check events in order.
- *
- */
-static void memcg1_check_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid)
+static void memcg1_check_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
return;

- if (unlikely(memcg1_event_ratelimit(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_TARGET_THRESH)))
+ if (unlikely(memcg1_event_ratelimit(memcg)))
mem_cgroup_threshold(memcg);
}

@@ -271,7 +250,7 @@ void memcg1_commit_charge(struct folio *folio, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)

local_irq_save(flags);
memcg1_charge_statistics(memcg, folio_nr_pages(folio));
- memcg1_check_events(memcg, folio_nid(folio));
+ memcg1_check_events(memcg);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}

@@ -344,7 +323,7 @@ void __memcg1_swapout(struct folio *folio, struct swap_cluster_info *ci)
VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED();
memcg1_charge_statistics(memcg, -folio_nr_pages(folio));
preempt_enable_nested();
- memcg1_check_events(memcg, folio_nid(folio));
+ memcg1_check_events(memcg);

rcu_read_unlock();
obj_cgroup_put(objcg);
@@ -398,14 +377,14 @@ void memcg1_swapin(struct folio *folio)
#endif

void memcg1_uncharge_batch(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long pgpgout,
- unsigned long nr_memory, int nid)
+ unsigned long nr_memory)
{
unsigned long flags;

local_irq_save(flags);
count_memcg_events(memcg, PGPGOUT, pgpgout);
__this_cpu_add(memcg->events_percpu->nr_page_events, nr_memory);
- memcg1_check_events(memcg, nid);
+ memcg1_check_events(memcg);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.h b/mm/memcontrol-v1.h
index f48d0e22e615..b9a21f0fd2c3 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.h
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ void memcg1_oom_recover(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);

void memcg1_commit_charge(struct folio *folio, struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
void memcg1_uncharge_batch(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long pgpgout,
- unsigned long nr_memory, int nid);
+ unsigned long nr_memory);

void memcg1_stat_format(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct seq_buf *s);
void reparent_memcg1_state_local(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *parent);
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline void memcg1_commit_charge(struct folio *folio,

static inline void memcg1_uncharge_batch(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
unsigned long pgpgout,
- unsigned long nr_memory, int nid) {}
+ unsigned long nr_memory) {}

static inline void memcg1_stat_format(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct seq_buf *s) {}

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ba3ef821553d..44ef376d657b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5293,7 +5293,6 @@ struct uncharge_gather {
unsigned long nr_memory;
unsigned long pgpgout;
unsigned long nr_kmem;
- int nid;
};

static inline void uncharge_gather_clear(struct uncharge_gather *ug)
@@ -5316,7 +5315,7 @@ static void uncharge_batch(const struct uncharge_gather *ug)
memcg1_oom_recover(memcg);
}

- memcg1_uncharge_batch(memcg, ug->pgpgout, ug->nr_memory, ug->nid);
+ memcg1_uncharge_batch(memcg, ug->pgpgout, ug->nr_memory);
rcu_read_unlock();

/* drop reference from uncharge_folio */
@@ -5345,7 +5344,6 @@ static void uncharge_folio(struct folio *folio, struct uncharge_gather *ug)
uncharge_gather_clear(ug);
}
ug->objcg = objcg;
- ug->nid = folio_nid(folio);

/* pairs with obj_cgroup_put in uncharge_batch */
obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
--
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