Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: when the swappiness is set to 0, memory swapping should be prohibited during the global reclaim process

[ying chen <yc1082463@gmail.com>]

Yes, I'm still using memcg-v1. But it's too expensive for us to
migrate the production environment to memcg-v2.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 10:34:51PM +0800, ying chen wrote:
> > When we use zram as swap disks, global reclaim may cause the memory in some
> > cgroups with memory.swappiness set to 0 to be swapped into zram. This memory
> > won't be swapped back immediately after the free memory increases. Instead,
> > it will continue to occupy the zram space, which may result in no available
> > zram space for the cgroups with swapping enabled. Therefore, I think that
> > when the vm.swappiness is set to 0, global reclaim should also refrain
> > from memory swapping, just like these cgroups.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: yc1082463 <yc1082463@gmail.com>
>
> It seems like you are still on memcg-v1. What is stopping you to move to
> memcg-v2 and use memory.swap.max = 0?
>