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Patch series "memcg: avoid flushing stats atomically where possible", v3. rstat flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus and the number of cgroups in the system. The purpose of this series is to minimize the contexts where we flush stats atomically. Patches 1 and 2 are cleanups requested during reviews of prior versions of this series. Patch 3 makes sure we never try to flush from within an irq context. Patches 4 to 7 introduce separate variants of mem_cgroup_flush_stats() for atomic and non-atomic flushing, and make sure we only flush the stats atomically when necessary. Patch 8 is a slightly tangential optimization that limits the work done by rstat flushing in some scenarios. This patch (of 8): cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe() can be a confusing name. It may read as "irqs are disabled throughout", which is what the current implementation does (currently under discussion [1]), but is not the intention. The intention is that this function is safe to call from atomic contexts. Name it as such. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-1-yosryahmed@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-2-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.