(2012/05/12 6:19), Andrew Morton wrote:

On Fri, 11 May 2012 18:47:06 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Frederic Weisbecker <redacted>

At killing res_counter which is a child of other counter,
we need to do
	res_counter_uncharge(child, xxx)
	res_counter_charge(parent, xxx)

This is not atomic and wasting cpu. This patch adds
res_counter_uncharge_until(). This function's uncharge propagates
to ancestors until specified res_counter.

	res_counter_uncharge_until(child, parent, xxx)

Now, ops is atomic and efficient.

Changelog since v2
 - removed unnecessary lines.
 - Fixed 'From' , this patch comes from his series. Please signed-off-by if good.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted>

Frederic's Signed-off-by: is unavaliable?

I didn't add his Signed-off because I modified his orignal patch a little...
I dropped res_counter_charge_until() because it's not used in this series,
I have no justification for adding it.
The idea of res_counter_uncharge_until() is from his patch.

Thanks,
-Kame