Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add mempressure cgroup

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On 01/10/2013 02:06 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 01:55:14PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> [...]
>>> We can use mempressure w/o memcg, and even then it can (or should :) be
>>> useful (for cpuset, for example).
>>
>> The problem is that you end with, at the very least, duplicate
>> hierarchical accounting mechanisms which overlap with each other
>> while, most likely, being slightly different.  About the same thing
>> happened with cpu and cpuacct controllers and we're now trying to
>> deprecate the latter.
> 
> Yeah. I started answering your comments about hierarchical accounting,
> looked into the memcg code, and realized that *this* is where I need the
> memcg stuff. :)
> 
> Thus yes, I guess I'll have to integrate it with memcg, or sort of.
> 

That being my point since the beginning. To generate per-memcg pressure,
you need memcg anyway. So you would have to have two different and
orthogonal mechanisms, and therefore, double account.


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