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From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,  Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
	 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Proactive Memory Reclaim
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:34:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJuCfpF2OVp=161ADh+XkrH_WjMHCmPDpLJSsqcstz9a5AV90A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8588314f167c9525e134ade91afdbebcd9e62eb1.camel@surriel.com>

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:08 AM Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 08:30 -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>
> > Topic: Proactive Memory Reclaim
> >
> > Motivation/Problem: Memory overcommit is most commonly used technique
> > to reduce the cost of memory by large infrastructure owners. However
> > memory overcommit can adversely impact the performance of latency
> > sensitive applications by triggering direct memory reclaim. Direct
> > reclaim is unpredictable and disastrous for latency sensitive
> > applications.
>
> This sounds similar to a project Johannes has
> been working on, except he is not tracking which
> memory is idle at all, but only the pressure on
> each cgroup, through the PSI interface:
>
> https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/psi/docs/overview
>
> Discussing the pros and cons, and experiences with
> both approaches seems like a useful topic. I'll add
> it to the agenda.

This topic sounds interesting and in line with some experiments being
done on Android. Looking forward to this discussion. CC'ing Android
folks that might be interested as well.

> --
> All Rights Reversed.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-23 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-23 15:30 Shakeel Butt
2019-04-23 15:58 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-23 16:33   ` Shakeel Butt
2019-04-23 16:49     ` Yang Shi
2019-04-23 17:12       ` Shakeel Butt
2019-04-23 18:26         ` Yang Shi
2019-04-23 16:08 ` Rik van Riel
2019-04-23 17:04   ` Shakeel Butt
2019-04-23 17:49     ` Johannes Weiner
2019-04-23 17:34   ` Suren Baghdasaryan [this message]
2019-04-23 17:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-04-24 16:28   ` Christopher Lameter

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