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From: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
	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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bad behavior in use_hierarchy file
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:22:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALWz4ixg5YYt6Np4zqO0Yn+U6vEGRRoGQoDmt8A1Vc5zwD91dQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120626075653.GD6713@tiehlicka.suse.cz>

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
> [Adding Ying to CC - they are using hierarchies AFAIU in their workloads]

Sorry for late ( a month late ) to the thread.

Our current production today doesn't support multi-hierarchy setup for
memcg, and all the cgroups are flat under root at least on the memory
resource perspective. However, we do have use_hierarchy set to 1 to
root cgroup upfront.

On the other hand, we started exploring nested cgroup since the flat
configuration doesn't fullfill all our usecases. In that case, we will
have configurations like: root-> A -> B -> C ( not sure about C but at
least level to B). Of course, we will have use_hierarchy set to 1 on
each level, and the mixed setting won't happen AFAIK.

--Ying
>
> 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)).
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
> SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
> Lihovarska 1060/12
> 190 00 Praha 9
> Czech Republic

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23 17:22 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
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 [this message]

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