linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.7-rc6

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjWJgWzOf9MCuiE0oDsF6cCCn7KKDc_xDN6Q3kWNEHKLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:11:42 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] hotfixes for 6.7-rc6

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 07:16, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Yu Zhao (4):
>       mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cache
>       mm/mglru: try to stop at high watermarks
>       mm/mglru: respect min_ttl_ms with memcgs
>       mm/mglru: reclaim offlined memcgs harder

Entirely unrelated to this pull request (which I already pulled and
pushed out, as noted by pr-tracker-bot), since I looked at these it
just reminded me about a question I've had for a while...

Do we have any long-term (or even short-term?) plans to just make
mglru be the one and only model?

Yes, right now it's not just a Kconfig choice, but a real technical
issue too: it depends on having enough flags available, so we have
that "cannot use it on 32-bit with sparsemem".

But I'm hoping there is a plan or a workaround for that?

Because I feel like we really don't want to keep this "two different
models" situation around forever.

                     Linus