On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > Unfortunately, I think this could potentially be too much of a bonus. On > > your same 32GB machine, if a root process is using 18GB and a user process > > is using 14GB, the user process ends up getting selected while the current > > discount of 3% still selects the root process. > > > > I do like the idea of scaling this bonus depending on points, however. I > > think it would be better if we could scale the discount but also limit it > > to some sane value. > > I just reverted to the /= 4 because we had that for a long time and it > seemed to work. I don't really mind either way as long as we get rid > of that -3%. Do you have a suggestion? > How about simply using 3% of the root process's points so that root processes get some bonus compared to non-root processes with the same memory usage and it's scaled to the usage rather than amount of available memory? So rather than points /= 4, we do if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) points -= (points * 3) / 100; instead. Sound good? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>