[PATCH RFC v0 2/3] res_counter: implement thresholds

[Balbir Singh]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:15 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:20:35 +0900
> Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura at mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>> >
>> > @@ -73,6 +76,7 @@ void res_counter_uncharge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
>> >             val = counter->usage;
>> >
>> >     counter->usage -= val;
>> > +   res_counter_threshold_notify_locked(counter);
>> >  }
>> >
>> hmm.. this adds new checks to hot-path of process life cycle.
>>
>> Do you have any number on performance impact of these patches(w/o setting any threshold)?
>> IMHO, it might be small enough to be ignored because KAMEZAWA-san's coalesce charge/uncharge
>> patches have decreased charge/uncharge for res_counter itself, but I want to know just to make sure.
>>
> Another concern is to support root cgroup, you need another notifier hook in
> memcg because root cgroup doesn't use res_counter now.
>
> Can't this be implemented in a way like softlimit check ?
> Filter by the number of event will be good for notifier behavior, for avoiding
> too much wake up, too.

I guess the semantics would vary then, they would become activity
semantics. I think we should avoid threshold notification for root,
since we have no limits in root anymore.

BTW, Kirill, I've been meaning to write this layer on top of
cgroupstats, is there anything that prevents us from using that today?
CC'ing Dan Malek and Vladslav Buzov who worked on similar patches
earlier.

Balbir Singh.