Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Proactive Memory Reclaim

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On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 08:30 -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:

> Topic: Proactive Memory Reclaim
> 
> Motivation/Problem: Memory overcommit is most commonly used technique
> to reduce the cost of memory by large infrastructure owners. However
> memory overcommit can adversely impact the performance of latency
> sensitive applications by triggering direct memory reclaim. Direct
> reclaim is unpredictable and disastrous for latency sensitive
> applications.

This sounds similar to a project Johannes has
been working on, except he is not tracking which
memory is idle at all, but only the pressure on
each cgroup, through the PSI interface:

https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/psi/docs/overview

Discussing the pros and cons, and experiences with
both approaches seems like a useful topic. I'll add
it to the agenda.

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