From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] idle memory tracking
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:35:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150608123535.d82543cedbb9060612a10113@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC4Lta1isOa+OK7mqCDjL+aV1j=mXBA8p5xnrMEMj+jy6dRMaw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 11:41:15 +0530 Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Vladimir Davydov
> <vdavydov@parallels.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch set introduces a new user API for tracking user memory pages
> > that have not been used for a given period of time. The purpose of this
> > is to provide the userspace with the means of tracking a workload's
> > working set, i.e. the set of pages that are actively used by the
> > workload. Knowing the working set size can be useful for partitioning
> > the system more efficiently, e.g. by tuning memory cgroup limits
> > appropriately, or for job placement within a compute cluster.
> >
> > ---- USE CASES ----
> >
> > The unified cgroup hierarchy has memory.low and memory.high knobs, which
> > are defined as the low and high boundaries for the workload working set
> > size. However, the working set size of a workload may be unknown or
> > change in time. With this patch set, one can periodically estimate the
> > amount of memory unused by each cgroup and tune their memory.low and
> > memory.high parameters accordingly, therefore optimizing the overall
> > memory utilization.
> >
>
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> Thanks for the patches, I was able test how the series is helpful to determine
> docker container workingset / idlemem with these patches. (tested on ppc64le
> after porting to a distro kernel).
And what were the results of your testing? The more details the
better, please.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-08 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-12 13:34 Vladimir Davydov
2015-05-12 13:34 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] memcg: add page_cgroup_ino helper Vladimir Davydov
2015-05-12 13:34 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] proc: add kpagecgroup file Vladimir Davydov
2015-05-12 13:34 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] proc: add kpageidle file Vladimir Davydov
2015-05-12 13:34 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] proc: export idle flag via kpageflags Vladimir Davydov
2015-06-07 6:11 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] idle memory tracking Raghavendra KT
2015-06-07 9:11 ` Vladimir Davydov
2015-06-08 19:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-06-09 8:26 ` Raghavendra K T
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