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SubjectRe: [patch 0/7] cpuset writeback throttling
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:04:42 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> > So the world wouldn't end if we just didn't merge it. Those users
> > stick with their workarounds and the kernel remains simpler and
> > smaller.
> >
>
> Agreed. This patchset is admittedly from a different time when cpusets
> was the only relevant extension that needed to be done.
>
BTW, what is the problem this patch wants to fix ?
1. avoid slow-down of memory allocation by triggering write-out earlier.
2. avoid OOM by throttoling dirty pages.

About 1, memcg's diry_ratio can help if mounted as
mount -t cgroup none /somewhere/ -o cpuset,memory
(If the user can accept overheads of memcg.)
If implemented.

About 2, A Google guy posted OOM handler cgroup to linux-mm.

> > How do we work out which is the best choice here? I don't have enough
> > information to do this.
> >
>
> If we are to support memcg-specific dirty ratios, that requires the
> aforementioned statistics to be collected so that the calculation is even
> possible. The series at
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122123225006571
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122123241106902
>
yes. we(memcg) need this kind of.

> is a step in that direction, although I'd prefer to see NR_UNSTABLE_NFS to
> be extracted separately from MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY so
> throttle_vm_writeout() can also use the new statistics.
>
Thank you for input.

Thanks,
-Kame




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