linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PROPOSAL] memcg: per-memcg user space reclaim interface

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Message-ID: <20200811173626.GA58879@blackbook>
Date:   Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:36:26 +0200
From:   Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PROPOSAL] memcg: per-memcg user space reclaim interface

Hi Shakeel.

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:02:50AM -0700, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com> wrote:
> > Well, I was talkingg about memory.low. It is not meant only to protect
> > from the global reclaim. It can be used for balancing memory reclaim
> > from _any_ external memory pressure source. So it is somehow related to
> > the usecase you have mentioned.
> >
> 
> For the uswapd use-case, I am not concerned about the external memory
> pressure source but the application hitting its own memory.high limit
> and getting throttled.
FTR, you can transform own memory.high into "external" pressure with a
hierarchy such as

  limit-group			memory.high=N+margin memory.low=0
  `- latency-sensitive-group	memory.low=N
  `- regular-group		memory.low=0

Would that ensure the latency targets?

Michal

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