Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: export workingset refault stats for cgroup v1

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 7:05 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 7:01 PM Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 3:06 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:58 AM Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Workingset refault stats are important and usefule metrics to measure
> > > > how well reclaimer and swapping work and how healthy the services are,
> > > > but they are just available for cgroup v2.  There are still plenty users
> > > > with cgroup v1, export the stats for cgroup v1.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > I do understand the development of cgroup v1 is actually stalled and
> > > > the community is reluctant to accept new features for v1.  However
> > > > the workingset refault stats are really quite useful and exporting
> > > > two new stats, which have been supported by v2, seems ok IMHO.  So
> > > > hopefully this patch could be considered.  Thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is just workingset refault good enough for your use-case? What about
> > > the other workingset stats? I don't have a strong opinion against
> > > adding these to v1 and I think these specific stats should be fine.
> >
> > The workingset refault is good enough for our usercase, but I don't
> > mind adding all the workingset_* stats if nobody has objection.
>
> For now let's just start with what your use-case needs. If in future
> there is a need we can add other workingset_* stats as well.

Sure, works for me.

>
> >
> > > (There is subtlety in exposing objcg based stats (i.e. reparenting) in
> > > v1 due to non-hierarchical stats in v1. I remember Yosry and Muchun
> > > were looking into that.)
> >
> > The workingset_* stats should have nothing to do with obj based stats IIUC.
>
> Yeah, that was just FYI for anyone in future who wants to export such
> stat in v1.

Thanks, Shakeel. If it looks good to me, would you please ack the patch?




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