linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] dirty balancing for cgroups

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Message-Id: <20080711083446.AC5425A22@siro.lan>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:46 +0900 (JST)
From:	yamamoto@...inux.co.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To:	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, menage@...gle.com,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] dirty balancing for cgroups

hi,

> > my patch penalizes heavy-writer cgroups as task_dirty_limit does
> > for heavy-writer tasks.  i don't think that it's necessary to be
> > tied to the memory subsystem because i merely want to group writers.
> > 
> Hmm, maybe what I need is different from this ;)
> Does not seem to be a help for memory reclaim under memcg.

to implement what you need, i think that we need to keep track of
the numbers of dirty-pages in each memory cgroups as a first step.
do you agree?

YAMAMOTO Takashi
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