On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:37 AM Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:42 PM Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Chunxin Zang writes: > > >On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:51 PM Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >> Chunxin Zang writes: > > >> >My usecase is that there are two types of services in one server. They > > >> >have difference > > >> >priorities. Type_A has the highest priority, we need to ensure it's > > >> >schedule latency、I/O > > >> >latency、memory enough. Type_B has the lowest priority, we expect it > > >> >will not affect > > >> >Type_A when executed. > > >> >So Type_A could use memory without any limit. Type_B could use memory > > >> >only when the > > >> >memory is absolutely sufficient. But we cannot estimate how much > > >> >memory Type_B should > > >> >use. Because everything is dynamic. So we can't set Type_B's memory.high. > > >> > > > >> >So we want to release the memory of Type_B when global memory is > > >> >insufficient in order > > >> >to ensure the quality of service of Type_A . In the past, we used the > > >> >'force_empty' interface > > >> >of cgroup v1. > > >> > > >> This sounds like a perfect use case for memory.low on Type_A, and it's pretty > > >> much exactly what we invented it for. What's the problem with that? > > > > > >But we cannot estimate how much memory Type_A uses at least. > > > > memory.low allows ballparking, you don't have to know exactly how much it uses. > > Any amount of protection biases reclaim away from that cgroup. > > > > >For example: > > >total memory: 100G > > >At the beginning, Type_A was in an idle state, and it only used 10G of memory. > > >The load is very low. We want to run Type_B to avoid wasting machine resources. > > >When Type_B runs for a while, it used 80G of memory. > > >At this time Type_A is busy, it needs more memory. > > > > Ok, so set memory.low for Type_A close to your maximum expected value. > > Please forgive me for not being able to understand why setting > memory.low for Type_A can solve the problem. > In my scene, Type_A is the most important, so I will set 100G to memory.low. > But 'memory.low' only takes effect passively when the kernel is > reclaiming memory. It means that reclaim Type_B's memory only when > Type_A in alloc memory slow path. This will affect Type_A's > performance. > We want to reclaim Type_B's memory in advance when A is expected to be busy. > How will you know when to reclaim from B? Are you polling /proc/meminfo? >From what I understand, you want to proactively reclaim from B, so that A does not go into global reclaim and in the worst case kill B, right? BTW you can use memory.high to reclaim from B by setting it lower than memory.current of B and reset it to 'max' once the reclaim is done. Since 'B' is not high priority (I am assuming not a latency sensitive workload), B hitting temporary memory.high should not be an issue. Also I am assuming you don't much care about the amount of memory to be reclaimed from B, so I think memory.high can fulfil your use-case. However if in future you decide to proactively reclaim from all the jobs based on their priority i.e. more aggressive reclaim from B and a little bit reclaim from A then memory.high is not a good interface. Shakeel
