linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm: add swapiness= arg to memory.reclaim

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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 09:59:04 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, Huan Yang <link@...o.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
	SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	"Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@...il.com>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>, Yue Zhao <findns94@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm: add swapiness= arg to memory.reclaim

On Tue 02-01-24 12:43:49, Dan Schatzberg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:29:59AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> Thanks for the review Michal and sorry for the delayed response. Your
> patch looks reasonable to me but I'm a bit unclear about the need for
> #ifdef - mem_cgroup_swappiness already works correctly regardless of
> CONFIG_MEMCG or not - why not make sc->swappiness and sc_swappiness()
> unconditional?

We do not have a different user than memcg pro-active reclaim. Making
that conditional makes that more explicit. Nothing that I would insist
on of course.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs