Re: [PATCH] memcg: put soft limit reclaim out of way if the excess tree is empty

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 01-08-16 13:17:17, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > @@ -2564,7 +2559,13 @@ unsigned long 
> > mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
> >             return 0;
> >  
> >     mctz = soft_limit_tree_node(pgdat->node_id);
> > -   if (soft_limit_tree_empty(mctz))
> > +
> > +   /*
> > +    * Do not even bother to check the largest node if the node
> 
>                                                                root

Fixed

> 
> > +    * is empty. Do it lockless to prevent lock bouncing. Races
> > +    * are acceptable as soft limit is best effort anyway.
> > +    */
> > +   if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mctz->rb_root))
> >             return 0;
> 
> Other than that, looks good. Please retain my
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>

Thanks.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs