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From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Chunxin Zang <zangchunxin@bytedance.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	lizefan@huawei.com, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	kafai@fb.com, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	andriin@fb.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@chromium.org,
	Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: Add the drop_cache interface for cgroup v2
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:43:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922124344.GA34296@chrisdown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKRVAeOjST1vJsSXMgj91=tMf1MQTeNp_dz34z=DwL7Weh0bmg@mail.gmail.com>

Chunxin Zang writes:
>Please forgive me for not being able to understand why setting
>memory.low for Type_A can solve the problem.
>In my scene, Type_A is the most important, so I will set 100G to memory.low.
>But 'memory.low' only takes effect passively when the kernel is
>reclaiming memory. It means that reclaim Type_B's memory only when
>Type_A  in alloc memory slow path. This will affect Type_A's
>performance.
>We want to reclaim Type_B's memory in advance when A is expected to be busy.

That's what kswapd reclaim is for, so this distinction is meaningless without 
measurements :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-21  8:02 zangchunxin
2020-09-21  8:12 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-21 10:42   ` Chris Down
2020-09-21 10:55   ` Yafang Shao
2020-09-21 11:05     ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-21 11:23       ` Yafang Shao
2020-09-21 11:36         ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-22  4:20           ` Yafang Shao
2020-09-22  7:27             ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-22  8:06               ` Yafang Shao
2020-09-22 10:01                 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-22  9:43       ` [External] " Chunxin Zang
2020-09-22  9:51         ` Chris Down
2020-09-22 10:24           ` Chunxin Zang
2020-09-22 10:42             ` Chris Down
2020-09-22 12:37               ` Chunxin Zang
2020-09-22 12:43                 ` Chris Down [this message]
2020-09-23  2:35                   ` Chunxin Zang
2020-09-22 19:57                 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-09-23  2:40                   ` Chunxin Zang
2020-09-21 15:55 ` Shakeel Butt

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