Re: [RFC v3] memcg: add memcg lru

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On Sun 17-11-19 19:35:26, Hillf Danton wrote:
> 
> Currently soft limit reclaim (slr) is frozen, see
> Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst for reasons.
> 
> This work adds memcg hook into kswapd's logic to bypass slr, paving
> a brick for its cleanup later.
> 
> After b23afb93d317 ("memcg: punt high overage reclaim to
> return-to-userland path"), high limit breachers (hlb) are reclaimed
> one after another spiraling up through the memcg hierarchy before
> returning to userspace.
> 
> The current memcg high work helps to add the lru because we get to
> collect hlb at zero price and in particular without adding changes
> to the high work's behavior.
> 
> Then a fifo list, which is essencially a simple copy of the page lru,
> is needed to facilitate queuing up hlb and ripping pages off them in
> round robin once kswapd starts doing its job.
> 
> Finally new hook is added with slr's two problems addressed i.e.
> hierarchy-unaware reclaim and overreclaim.
> 
> Thanks to Rong Chen for testing.

You have ignored the previous review feedback again [1]. I have nacked
the patch on grounds that it is completely missing any real use case
scenario or any numbers suggesting there is an actual improvement.

Please do not post new versions until you make those things clear.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029083730.GC31513@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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