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mm, memcg: fix comment error about memory.low usage

Message ID 0505ec19cc077cf32d7175ffea121e2130c64590.1577090923.git.xuyu@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series mm, memcg: fix comment error about memory.low usage | expand

Commit Message

Xu Yu Dec. 23, 2019, 8:56 a.m. UTC
When memory.current > memory.low, the usage of memory.low should be the
value of memory.low, not 0.

Fix and simplify the equation in comments.

Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Roman Gushchin Dec. 23, 2019, 4:52 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 04:56:56PM +0800, Xu Yu wrote:
> When memory.current > memory.low, the usage of memory.low should be the
> value of memory.low, not 0.
> 
> Fix and simplify the equation in comments.

Hello, Xu!

There is a pending patchset from Johannes, which performs a significant rework
of this code: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/19/1272 .

Please, take a look.

Thanks!
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c5b5f74..def95a5 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6236,9 +6236,7 @@  struct cgroup_subsys memory_cgrp_subsys = {
  * elow = min( memory.low, parent->elow * ------------------ ),
  *                                        siblings_low_usage
  *
- *             | memory.current, if memory.current < memory.low
- * low_usage = |
- *	       | 0, otherwise.
+ * low_usage = min( memory.current, memory.low )
  *
  *
  * Such definition of the effective memory.low provides the expected