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Date:   Thu, 7 May 2020 16:34:49 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:46:51PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> To implement per-object slab memory accounting, we need to
> convert slab vmstat counters to bytes. Actually, out of
> 4 levels of counters: global, per-node, per-memcg and per-lruvec
> only two last levels will require byte-sized counters.
> It's because global and per-node counters will be counting the
> number of slab pages, and per-memcg and per-lruvec will be
> counting the amount of memory taken by charged slab objects.
> 
> Converting all vmstat counters to bytes or even all slab
> counters to bytes would introduce an additional overhead.
> So instead let's store global and per-node counters
> in pages, and memcg and lruvec counters in bytes.
> 
> To make the API clean all access helpers (both on the read
> and write sides) are dealing with bytes.
> 
> To avoid back-and-forth conversions a new flavor of helpers
> is introduced, which always returns values in pages:
> node_page_state_pages() and global_node_page_state_pages().
> 
> Actually new helpers are just reading raw values. Old helpers are
> simple wrappers, which perform a conversion if the vmstat items are
> in bytes. Because at the moment no one actually need bytes,
> there are WARN_ON_ONCE() macroses inside to warn about inappropriate
> use cases.
> 
> Thanks to Johannes Weiner for the idea of having the byte-sized API
> on top of the page-sized internal storage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>