On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:41 AM Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:30:00PM -0700, Yu Zhao wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:22:19PM -0700, Yu Zhao wrote: > > > TLDR > > > ==== > > > The current page reclaim is too expensive in terms of CPU usage and it > > > often makes poor choices about what to evict. This patchset offers an > > > alternative solution that is performant, versatile and > > > straightforward. > > > > <snipped> > > > > > Summery > > > ======= > > > The facts are: > > > 1. The independent lab results and the real-world applications > > > indicate substantial improvements; there are no known regressions. > > > 2. Thrashing prevention, working set estimation and proactive reclaim > > > work out of the box; there are no equivalent solutions. > > > 3. There is a lot of new code; nobody has demonstrated smaller changes > > > with similar effects. > > > > > > Our options, accordingly, are: > > > 1. Given the amount of evidence, the reported improvements will likely > > > materialize for a wide range of workloads. > > > 2. Gauging the interest from the past discussions [14][15][16], the > > > new features will likely be put to use for both personal computers > > > and data centers. > > > 3. Based on Google's track record, the new code will likely be well > > > maintained in the long term. It'd be more difficult if not > > > impossible to achieve similar effects on top of the existing > > > design. > > > > Hi Andrew, Linus, > > > > Can you please take a look at this patchset and let me know if it's > > 5.17 material? > > > > My goal is to get it merged asap so that users can reap the benefits > > and I can push the sequels. Please examine the data provided -- I > > think the unprecedented coverage and the magnitude of the improvements > > warrant a green light. > > Downstream kernel maintainers who have been carrying MGLRU for more than > 3 versions, can you please provide your Acked-by tags? > > Having this patchset in the mainline will make your job easier :) > > Alexandre - the XanMod Kernel maintainer > https://xanmod.org > > Brian - the Chrome OS kernel memory maintainer > https://www.chromium.org > > Jan - the Arch Linux Zen kernel maintainer > https://archlinux.org > > Steven - the Liquorix kernel maintainer > https://liquorix.net > > Suleiman - the ARCVM (Android downstream) kernel memory maintainer > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/kernel > > Also my gratitude to those who have helped test MGLRU: > > Daniel - researcher at Michigan Tech > benchmarked memcached > > Holger - who has been testing/patching/contributing to various > subsystems since ~2008 > > Shuang - researcher at University of Rochester > benchmarked fio and provided a report > > Sofia - EDI https://www.edi.works > benchmarked the top eight memory hogs and provided reports Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
