Re: [PATCH v2 3/2] memcg: punt high overage reclaim to return-to-userland path

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Hello, Vladimir.

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:38:22PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > As long as kernel doesn't have a run-away allocation spree, this
> > should provide enough protection while making kmemcg behave more
> > consistently.
> 
> Another good thing about such an approach is that it copes with prio
> inversion. Currently, a task with small memory.high might issue
> memory.high reclaim on kmem charge with a bunch of various locks held.
> If a task with a big value of memory.high needs any of these locks,
> it'll have to wait until the low prio task finishes reclaim and releases
> the locks. By handing over reclaim to task_work whenever possible we
> might avoid this issue and improve overall performance.

Indeed, will update the patch accordingly.

Thanks.

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tejun
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