On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:21:11 +0000 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This series attempts to address shortages in today's approach for memcg > stats flushing, namely occasionally stale or expensive stat reads. The > series does so by changing the threshold that we use to decide whether > to trigger a flush to be per memcg instead of global (patch 3), and then > changing flushing to be per memcg (i.e. subtree flushes) instead of > global (patch 5). > > Patch 3 & 5 are the core of the series, and they include more details > and testing results. The rest are either cleanups or prep work. > > This series replaces the "memcg: more sophisticated stats flushing" > series [1], which also replaces another series, in a long list of > attempts to improve memcg stats flushing. It is not a new version of > the same patchset as it is a completely different approach. This is > based on collected feedback from discussions on lkml in all previous > attempts. Hopefully, this is the final attempt. Seems that Shakeel's performance concerns have largely been set aside. It would be good to have some affirmative input on this patchset from the memcg developers, please?
