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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/9] memcg: make memcg's life cycle the same as cgroup
Hi Andrew, any chance for this patchset to be queued for 3.11?

On 2013/6/14 9:53, Li Zefan wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> All the patches in this patchset has been acked by Michal and Kamezawa-san, and
> it's ready to be merged into -mm.
>
> I have another pending patchset that kills css_id, which depends on this one.
>
>
> Changes since v3:
> - rebased against mmotm 2013-06-06-16-19
> - changed wmb() to smp_wmb() and moved it to memcg_kmem_mark_dead() and added
> more comment.
>
> Changes since v2:
>
> - rebased against 3.10-rc1
> - collected some acks
> - the two memcg bug fixes has been merged into mainline
> - the cgroup core patch has been merged into mainline
>
> Changes since v1:
>
> - wrote better changelog and added acked-by and reviewed-by tags
> - revised some comments as suggested by Michal
> - added a wmb() in kmem_cgroup_css_offline(), pointed out by Michal
> - fixed a bug which causes a css_put() never be called
>
>
> Now memcg has its own refcnt, so when a cgroup is destroyed, the memcg can
> still be alive. This patchset converts memcg to always use css_get/put, so
> memcg will have the same life cycle as its corresponding cgroup.
>
> The historical reason that memcg didn't use css_get in some cases, is that
> cgroup couldn't be removed if there're still css refs. The situation has
> changed so that rmdir a cgroup will succeed regardless css refs, but won't
> be freed until css refs goes down to 0.
>
> Since the introduction of kmemcg, the memcg refcnt handling grows even more
> complicated. This patchset greately simplifies memcg's life cycle management.
>
> Also, after those changes, we can convert memcg to use cgroup->id, and then
> we can kill css_id.
>
> Li Zefan (7):
> memcg: use css_get() in sock_update_memcg()
> memcg: don't use mem_cgroup_get() when creating a kmemcg cache
> memcg: use css_get/put when charging/uncharging kmem
> memcg: use css_get/put for swap memcg
> memcg: don't need to get a reference to the parent
> memcg: kill memcg refcnt
> memcg: don't need to free memcg via RCU or workqueue
>
> Michal Hocko (2):
> Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure."
> memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 208 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
>



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