linux-kernel - Re: xarray breaks thrashing detection and cgroup isolation

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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 09:11:46 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: xarray breaks thrashing detection and cgroup isolation

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 03:59:33PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> My point is that we cannot have random drivers' internal data
> structures charge to and pin cgroups indefinitely just because they
> happen to do the modprobing or otherwise interact with the driver.
> 
> It makes no sense in terms of performance or cgroup semantics.

But according to Roman, you already have that problem with the page
cache.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190522222254.GA5700@castle/T/

So this argument doesn't make sense to me.