From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Meta kernel team" <kernel-team@meta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: introduce non-blocking limit setting interfaces
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:28:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <awhadja7fr5uqkhj54mqlbrrcyzjnjhw7wayfa74llamlcd3ya@netfkab3mvee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xr93ecxlsauy.fsf@gthelen-cloudtop.c.googlers.com>
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:06:13AM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 05:15:38PM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 04:08:42PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > > Any reasons to prefer one over the other? To me having separate
> > > > files/interfaces seem more clean and are more script friendly. Also
> > > > let's see what others have to say or prefer.
>
> > > I kinda like O_NONBLOCK. The subtlety level of the interface seems
> > > to match
> > > that of the implemented behavior.
>
>
> > Ok, it seems like more people prefer O_NONBLOCK, so be it. I will send
> > v2 soon.
>
> > Also I would request to backport to stable kernels. Let me know if
> > anyone have concerns.
>
> I don't feel strongly, but I thought LTS was generally intended for bug
> fixes. So I assume that this new O_NONBLOCK support would not be LTS
> worthy.
>
I got the request asking for this behavior for distributions on older
LTS kernels and I think it is solving a real user pain, so worth
backporting to stable kernels.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-21 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-18 19:59 Shakeel Butt
2025-04-18 20:18 ` Greg Thelen
2025-04-18 20:30 ` Shakeel Butt
2025-04-18 22:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2025-04-18 23:08 ` Shakeel Butt
2025-04-19 3:15 ` Tejun Heo
2025-04-19 16:36 ` Shakeel Butt
2025-04-21 17:06 ` Greg Thelen
2025-04-21 17:28 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
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