On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:24:39PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > Hi, > > This patch set introduces a new user API for tracking user memory pages > that have not been used for a given period of time. The purpose of this > is to provide the userspace with the means of tracking a workload's > working set, i.e. the set of pages that are actively used by the > workload. Knowing the working set size can be useful for partitioning > the system more efficiently, e.g. by tuning memory cgroup limits > appropriately, or for job placement within a compute cluster. > > ---- USE CASES ---- > > The unified cgroup hierarchy has memory.low and memory.high knobs, which > are defined as the low and high boundaries for the workload working set > size. However, the working set size of a workload may be unknown or > change in time. With this patch set, one can periodically estimate the > amount of memory unused by each cgroup and tune their memory.low and > memory.high parameters accordingly, therefore optimizing the overall > memory utilization. > > Another use case is balancing workloads within a compute cluster. > Knowing how much memory is not really used by a workload unit may help > take a more optimal decision when considering migrating the unit to > another node within the cluster. Another usecase I have a interest is working with per-process reclaim. https://lwn.net/Articles/545668/ With idle tracking, we could reclaim idle pages only by smart user memory-manager. Thanks. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
