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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	devel@openvz.org, Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bad behavior in use_hierarchy file
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:31:51 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE98F97.6030406@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120626075653.GD6713@tiehlicka.suse.cz>

On 06/26/2012 11:56 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [Adding Ying to CC - they are using hierarchies AFAIU in their workloads]
>
> On Mon 25-06-12 13:49:08, Tejun Heo wrote:
> [...]
>> A bit of delta but is there any chance we can either deprecate
>> .use_hierarhcy or at least make it global toggle instead of subtree
>> thing?
>
> So what you are proposing is to have all subtrees of the root either
> hierarchical or not, right?
>
>> This seems needlessly complicated. :(
>
> Toggle wouldn't help much I am afraid. We would still have to
> distinguish (non)hierarchical cases. And I am not sure we can make
> everything hierarchical easily.
> Most users (from my experience) ignored use_hierarchy for some reasons
> and the end results might be really unexpected for them if they used
> deeper subtrees (which might be needed due to combination with other
> controller(s)).
>
Do we have any idea about who those users are, and how is their setup 
commonly done?

We can propose work arounds here, but not without first knowing work 
arounds to what =p

One thing that would really influence this, for instance, is whether or 
not they limit at all levels in the tree, etc.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-26 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-25  9:21 Glauber Costa
2012-06-25  9:54 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-25 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-25 12:11   ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-25 12:49     ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-25 12:55       ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-25 13:22         ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-25 20:49 ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-25 22:26   ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-26  7:56   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-26 10:31     ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-06-26 11:10       ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-26 11:12         ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-26 17:55     ` Tejun Heo
2012-07-23 17:22     ` Ying Han

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