On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35:58 +0530
Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If the only use of this is for rmdir, why not just make it part of the 
> > rmdir operation on the memory cgroup if there are no tasks by default?
> > 
> 
> That's a good idea, but sometimes an administrator might want to force
> a cgroup empty and start fresh without necessary deleting the cgroup.
> 
I'll make a "automatic force_empty at rmdir()" patch as another patch depends
on this. If we make concensus that "force_empty interface is redundant", I'll
remove it later.


> I am not convinced of this hack either, specially the statement of
> setting count to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX.
> 
Just because I think there should be "unlock and rest" in this busy loop,
I need some number. Should I define other number ?
as
#define FORCE_RECALIM_BATCH     (128)


> >> +          /* drop all page_cgroup in inactive_list */
> >> +          mem_cgroup_force_empty_list(mem, &mem->inactive_list);
> >> +  }
> > 
> > This implementation as a while loop looks very suspect since 
> > mem_cgroup_force_empty_list() uses while (!list_empty(list)) as well.  
> > Perhaps it's just easier here as
> > 
> >     if (list_empty(&mem->active_list) && list_empty(&mem->inactive_list))
> >             return 0;
> > 
> 
> Do we VM_BUG_ON() in case the lists are not empty after calling
> mem_cgroup_force_empty_list()
>
Okay, I will add.
 

> > Reading memory.force_empty is pretty useless, so why allow it to be read 
> > at all?
> 
> I agree, this is not required. I wonder if we could set permissions at
> group level to mark this file as *write only*. We could use the new
> read_uint and write_uint callbacks for reading/writing integers.
> 
ok, will remove.

Thanks,
-Kame

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