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						Glauber Costa
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		On 10/23/2012 09:50 PM, JoonSoo Kim wrote: 
>> -struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, 
>> > -               size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) 
>> > +struct kmem_cache * 
>> > +__kmem_cache_alias(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size, 
>> > +                  size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) 
>> >  { 
>> >         struct kmem_cache *s; 
>> > 
>> > -       s = find_mergeable(size, align, flags, name, ctor); 
>> > +       s = find_mergeable(memcg, size, align, flags, name, ctor); 
>> >         if (s) { 
>> >                 s->refcount++; 
>> >                 /* 
> If your intention is that find_mergeable() works for memcg-slab-caches properly, 
> it cannot works properly with this code. 
> When memcg is not NULL, slab cache is only added to memcg's slab cache list. 
> find_mergeable() only interate on original-slab-cache list. 
> So memcg slab cache never be mergeable. 
 
Actually, recent results made me reconsider this. 
 
I split this in multiple lists so we could transverse the lists faster 
for /proc/slabinfo. 
 
Turns out, there are many places that will rely on the ability to scan 
through *all* caches in the system (root or not). This is one (easily 
fixable) example, but there are others, like the hotplug handlers. 
 
That said, I don't think that /proc/slabinfo is *that* performance 
sensitive, so it is better to just skip the non-root caches, and just 
keep all caches in the global list. 
 
Maybe we would still benefit from a memcg-side list, for example, when 
we're destructing memcg, so I'll consider keeping that (with a list 
field in memcg_params). But even for that one, is still doable to 
transverse the whole list...
		
		
		
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