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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:50:32 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To:     Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] workingset: memcg: sleep when flushing stats in
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On Thu 30-03-23 00:42:36, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 12:39 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue 28-03-23 22:16:42, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > > In workingset_refault(), we call
> > > mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited() to flush stats within an
> > > RCU read section and with sleeping disallowed. Move the call above
> > > the RCU read section and allow sleeping to avoid unnecessarily
> > > performing a lot of work without sleeping.
> >
> > Could you say few words why the flushing is done before counters are
> > updated rather than after (the RCU section)?
> 
> It's not about the counters that are updated, it's about the counters
> that we read. Stats readers do a flush first to read accurate stats.
> We flush before a read, not after an update.

Right you are, my bad I have misread the intention here.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

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Michal Hocko
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