linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:34:25 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for
 swappiness and oom_control

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:13:18 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:

> Per-memcg swappiness and oom killing can currently not be tweaked on a
> memcg that is part of a hierarchy, but not the root of that hierarchy.
> Users have complained that they can't configure this when they turned
> on hierarchy mode.  In fact, with hierarchy mode becoming the default,
> this restriction disables the tunables entirely.
> 
> But there is no good reason for this restriction.  The settings for
> swappiness and OOM killing are taken from whatever memcg whose limit
> triggered reclaim and OOM invocation, regardless of its position in
> the hierarchy tree.
> 
> Allow setting swappiness on any group.  The knob on the root memcg
> already reads the global VM swappiness, make it writable as well.
> 
> Allow disabling the OOM killer on any non-root memcg.

Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt needs updates?
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