Re: [PATCH v2 12/46] mm/memcg: Use the node id in mem_cgroup_update_tree()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 12:20:17 EST


On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:12:40AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:15:17PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > static struct mem_cgroup_per_node *
> > -mem_cgroup_page_nodeinfo(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct page *page)
> > +mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid)
> > {
> > - int nid = page_to_nid(page);
> > -
> > return memcg->nodeinfo[nid];
> > }
>
> I'd just kill this function entirely and open code it into the only
> caller

Done.

> > - mctz = soft_limit_tree_from_page(page);
> > + mctz = soft_limit_tree_node(nid);
>
> And while were at it, soft_limit_tree_node seems like a completely
> pointless helper that does nothing but obsfucating the code. While
> you touch this area it might be worth to spin another patch to just
> remove it as well.

I'm scared that if I touch this file too much, people will start to
think I know something about memcgs. Happy to add it on; cc'ing
maintainers.