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From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	"Yang Shi" <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
	<cgroups@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [patch] mm, memcg: provide a stat to describe reclaimable memory
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:15:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200715071522.19663-1-sjpark@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2007142353350.2694999@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)

Hello David,

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:03 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> An alternative to this would also be to change from an "available" metric 
> to an "anon_reclaimable" metric since both the deferred split queues and 
> lazy freeable memory would pertain to anon.  This would no longer attempt 
> to mimic MemAvailable and leave any such calculation to userspace
> (anon_reclaimable + (file + slab_reclaimable) / 2).
> 
> With this route, care would need to be taken to clearly indicate that 
> anon_reclaimable is not necessarily a subset of the "anon" metric since 
> reclaimable memory from compound pages on deferred split queues is not 
> mapped, so it doesn't show up in NR_ANON_MAPPED.
> 
> I'm indifferent to either approach and would be happy to switch to 
> anon_reclaimable if others agree and doesn't foresee any extensibility 
> issues.

Agreed, I was also once confused about the 'MemAvailable'.  The 'reclaimable'
might be better to understand.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-15  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-15  3:18 David Rientjes
2020-07-15  7:00 ` David Rientjes
2020-07-15  7:15   ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2020-07-15 17:33     ` David Rientjes
2020-07-16 20:58       ` [patch] mm, memcg: provide an anon_reclaimable stat David Rientjes
2020-07-16 21:07         ` Shakeel Butt
2020-07-16 21:28           ` David Rientjes
2020-07-17  1:37             ` Shakeel Butt
2020-07-17  8:34         ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-17 14:39         ` Johannes Weiner
2020-07-15 13:10 ` [patch] mm, memcg: provide a stat to describe reclaimable memory Chris Down
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2007151046320.2788464@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
2020-07-17 12:17     ` Chris Down
2020-07-17 19:37       ` David Rientjes
2020-07-20  7:37         ` Michal Hocko

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