On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 03:07:15PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Changes since v1: > - improved Changelogs based on the discussion with Roman. Thanks! > - fix div0 when recursive & fixed protection is combined > - fix an unused compiler warning > > The current memory.low (and memory.min) semantics require protection > to be assigned to a cgroup in an untinterrupted chain from the > top-level cgroup all the way to the leaf. > > In practice, we want to protect entire cgroup subtrees from each other > (system management software vs. workload), but we would like the VM to > balance memory optimally *within* each subtree, without having to make > explicit weight allocations among individual components. The current > semantics make that impossible. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> The original behavior turned out to be a significant source of mistakes and use cases which would require older behavior just weren't there. Thanks. -- tejun
