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From: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
To: Matthew Chae <matthew.chae@axis.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kernel@axis.com, christopher.wong@axis.com,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: add memory.peak in cgroup root
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:20:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230223142053.ejpygn4asiks7uue@blackpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230221143421.10385-1-matthew.chae@axis.com>

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Hello Matthew.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 03:34:20PM +0100, Matthew Chae <matthew.chae@axis.com> wrote:
> The kernel currently doesn't provide any method to show the overall
> system's peak memory usage recorded. Instead, only each slice's peak
> memory usage recorded except for cgroup root is shown through each
> memory.peak.

The memory.peak value is useful as a calibration insight when you want to
configure memcg limit.
But there is no global (memcg) limit on memory. So what would be this
(not clearly) defined value good for? Or better then userspace sampling
of chosen available metric?

Thanks,
Michal

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-21 14:34 Matthew Chae
2023-02-21 15:07 ` Michal Hocko
2023-02-21 16:13   ` Sv: " Christopher Wong
2023-02-21 16:16     ` Michal Hocko
2023-02-23 14:20 ` Michal Koutný [this message]
2023-02-23 16:22 Matthew Chae
2023-02-23 17:30 ` Roman Gushchin
2023-02-23 19:00   ` Matthew Chae
2023-02-23 22:00     ` Roman Gushchin
2023-02-24  8:23     ` Michal Hocko
2023-02-24 14:18       ` Matthew Chae
2023-02-24 15:02         ` Michal Hocko
2023-02-24 15:45           ` Matthew Chae

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