Re: Help Resource Counters Scale better (v4)

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Tue Aug 11 2009 - 23:58:34 EST


* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-08-11 16:31:59]:

> Is this an alternative approach to using percpu_counters, or do we do
> both or do we choose one or the other? res_counter_charge() really is
> quite sucky.
>

This is an alternative approach, I'll still do the percpu counter
patches, but once the overhead for root is gone, most users not using
this functionality will not see any major overhead.

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Balbir
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