Re: [RFC][for -mm] memory controller enhancements for reclaiming take2 [5/8] throttling simultaneous callers of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:39:21 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add throttling direct reclaim.
> 
> Trying heavy workload under memory controller, you'll see too much
> iowait and system seems heavy. (This is not good.... memory controller
> is usually used for isolating system workload)
> And too much memory are reclaimed.
> 
> This patch adds throttling function for direct reclaim.
> Currently, num_online_cpus/(4) + 1 threads can do direct memory reclaim
> under memory controller.

The same problems are true of global reclaim.

Now that we're discussing this RFC anyway, I wonder if we
should think about moving this restriction to the global
reclaim level...

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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