Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:08:21 +0100
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
        Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
        Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] memcg: use native word page statistics counters
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:01:54AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > The statistic counters are in units of pages, there is no reason to
> > make them 64-bit wide on 32-bit machines.
> >
> > Make them native words. ?Since they are signed, this leaves 31 bit on
> > 32-bit machines, which can represent roughly 8TB assuming a page size
> > of 4k.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch changes mem_cgroup_recursive_idx_stat with
> mem_cgroup_recursive_stat as well.
> As you know, It would be better to be another patch although it's
> trivial. But I don't mind it.
> I like the name. :)

I also feel that it's not too nice to mix such cleanups with
functionality changes.  But I found the name too appalling to leave it
alone, and a separate patch not worth the trouble.

If somebody has strong feelings, I will happily split it up.

Thanks for your review, Minchan.

	Hannes
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