linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: deprecate memory.force

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Message-ID: <20140513131655.GC18849@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 09:16:56 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, lizefan@...wei.com,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: deprecate memory.force_empty knob

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 12-05-14 11:25:07, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 05:20:15PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Mon 12-05-14 11:00:14, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:58:03PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > @@ -4793,6 +4793,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
> > > > >  
> > > > >  	if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> > > > >  		return -EINVAL;
> > > > > +	pr_info("%s (%d): memory.force_empty is deprecated and will be removed.",
> > > > > +			current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
> > > > > +	pr_cont(" Let us know if you know if it needed in your usecase at");
> > > > > +	pr_cont(" linux-mm@...ck.org\n");
> > > > >  	return mem_cgroup_force_empty(memcg);
> > > > 
> > > > It probably would be way easier to just mark the knob with
> > > > CFTYPE_INSANE.
> > > 
> > > That would prevent from creating the file, right? I do not mind that but
> > > I would like to see people complaining before.
> > 
> > Oh sure, if you wanna see people complaining before the roll out of
> > unified hierarchy, but let's make sure it's also marked with
> > CFTYPE_INSANE.  It's easy to remove the flag afterwards.  The other
> > way isn't, so...
> ---
> >From 6f2a33df7750f0794b03f7a85aba02a4e631f2a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:20:46 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] memcg: deprecate memory.force_empty knob
> 
> force_empty has been introduced primarily to drop memory before it gets
> reparented on the group removal. This alone doesn't sound fully
> justified because reparented pages which are not in use can be reclaimed
> also later when there is a memory pressure on the parent level.
> 
> Mark the knob CFTYPE_INSANE which tells the cgroup core that it
> shouldn't create the knob with the experimental sane_behavior. Other
> users will get informed about the deprecation and asked to tell us more.
> But I expect that most users will be simply cgroup remove handlers
> which do that since ever without having any good reason for it.
> 
> If somebody really cares and the reparented pages, which would be dropped
> otherwise, push out more important ones then we should fix the
> reparenting code and put pages to the tail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

I'm skeptical the printk will do anything useful, but you marked the
knob insane and that's the most important change.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
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