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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	josef@toxicpanda.com, jack@suse.cz, hughd@google.com,
	darrick.wong@oracle.com, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, guro@fb.com,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, shakeelb@google.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm: Reduce IO by improving algorithm of memcg pagecache pages eviction
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:57:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190110095752.GK31793@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d4f4c83-44c9-c6d5-8dbe-c42a47e6c2bd@virtuozzo.com>

On Thu 10-01-19 12:42:02, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
[...]
> In general, I think a some time useful design is not a Bible, that nobody
> is allowed to change. We should not limit us in something, in case of this
> has a sense and may be useful. This is just a note in general.

But any semantic exported to the userspace and real application
depending on it is carved in stone for ever. And this is the case here I
am afraid. So if we really need some sort of soft unmapping or
reparenting a memory from a memcg then we really need to find a
different way. I do not see a straightforward way right now TBH.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-09 12:20 Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 12:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: Uncharge and keep page in pagecache on memcg reclaim Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 12:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: Recharge page memcg on first get from pagecache Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 12:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: Pass FGP_NOWAIT in generic_file_buffered_read and enable ext4 Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 14:11 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm: Reduce IO by improving algorithm of memcg pagecache pages eviction Michal Hocko
2019-01-09 15:43   ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 17:10     ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-10  9:42       ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-10  9:57         ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-01-09 15:49 ` Josef Bacik
2019-01-09 16:08   ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 16:33     ` Josef Bacik
2019-01-10 10:06       ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-09 16:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-01-09 17:44   ` Shakeel Butt
2019-01-09 19:20     ` Johannes Weiner
2019-01-09 17:37 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-01-10  9:46   ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-01-10 19:19     ` Shakeel Butt
2019-01-11 12:17       ` Kirill Tkhai

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