From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Tao Cui <cui.tao@linux.dev>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
muchun.song@linux.dev, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] mm, memcg: isolate deprecated v1 state from struct mem_cgroup
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:26:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqxMk6yaiFHeeAAg@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260916125737.1095414-1-cui.tao@linux.dev>
On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 08:57:34PM +0800, Tao Cui wrote:
> From: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
>
> The legacy cgroup v1 memory controller has already been moved out of
> the shared implementation at the file level (mm/memcontrol-v1.c) and at
> the Kconfig level (CONFIG_MEMCG_V1, default n since 6.11). Its
> per-cgroup state, however, still sits as individual members inside
> struct mem_cgroup, guarded by #ifdefs.
>
> This series isolates the deprecated implementation from the shared hot
> structure: all v1-only members are grouped into a dedicated
> struct mem_cgroup_v1, and every access goes through memcg->v1.X.
>
> With this in place the v1 implementation is self-contained: its
> interface in mm/memcontrol-v1.c, its state in struct mem_cgroup_v1, and
> its eventual removal becomes a localized deletion of this struct
> together with mm/memcontrol-v1.c, instead of unwinding
> ifdef-scattered members across the shared header.
Sorry I don't see any benefit of this code churn. The code is already behind
config. What exactly this code churn is giving us?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-16 12:57 Tao Cui
2026-09-16 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, memcg: introduce struct mem_cgroup_v1 Tao Cui
2026-09-16 12:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, memcg: move v1-only members into mem_cgroup_v1 Tao Cui
2026-09-16 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] docs: cgroup-v1: note the v1 memory controller implementation boundary Tao Cui
2026-09-17 20:26 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-09-18 9:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] mm, memcg: isolate deprecated v1 state from struct mem_cgroup Michal Hocko
2026-09-18 10:22 ` Tao Cui
2026-09-18 16:24 ` Johannes Weiner
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