linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Consider subtrees in memory.events

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Message-ID: <20190130181630.GF18811@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:16:30 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Consider subtrees in memory.events

On Wed 30-01-19 09:52:22, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:41:17PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > But we are discussing the file name effectively. I do not see a long
> > term maintenance burden. Confusing? Probably yes but that is were the
> 
> Cost on user side.
> 
> > documentation would be helpful.
> 
> which is an a lot worse option with way higher total cost.

And how exactly does the cost get any smaller with a mount option. The
consumer of the API will likely not know there are two modes and check
for it to figure out how to interpret those values. Or maybe I still do
not follow how exactly is the mount option supposed to work.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs