From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@vivo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensource.kernel@vivo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg supports freeing the specified zone's memory
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:36:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z4kZa0BLH6jexJf1@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250116142242.615-1-justinjiang@vivo.com>
On Thu 16-01-25 22:22:42, Zhiguo Jiang wrote:
> Currently, the try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages interface releases the
> memory occupied by the memcg, which defaults to all zones in the system.
> However, for multi zone systems, such as when there are both movable zone
> and normal zone, it is not possible to release memory that is only in
> the normal zone.
>
> This patch is used to implement the try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages interface
> to support for releasing the specified zone's memory occupied by the
> memcg in a multi zone systems, in order to optimize the memory usage of
> multiple zones.
Could you elaborate more on the actual usecase please? Who is going to
control which zone to reclaim from, how and why?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-16 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-16 14:22 Zhiguo Jiang
2025-01-16 14:36 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2025-01-17 4:41 ` zhiguojiang
2025-01-17 9:33 ` Michal Hocko
2025-01-17 10:25 ` zhiguojiang
2025-01-17 11:43 ` Michal Hocko
2025-01-20 1:22 ` zhiguojiang
2025-01-20 9:40 ` Michal Hocko
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