linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm: vmpressure: don't count proactive reclaim in vmpressure

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:02:10 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: vmpressure: don't count proactive reclaim in vmpressure

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:30 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> vmpressure is used in cgroup v1 to notify userspace of reclaim
> efficiency events, and is also used in both cgroup v1 and v2 as a signal
> for memory pressure for networking, see
> mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure().
>
> Proactive reclaim intends to probe memcgs for cold memory, without
> affecting their performance. Hence, reclaim caused by writing to
> memory.reclaim should not trigger vmpressure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>