Re: [PATCH 03/03] Unmapped: Add guarantee code

[Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:04 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> On 3/10/06, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Magnus Damm wrote:
> > > Implement per-LRU guarantee through sysctl.
> > >
> > > This patch introduces the two new sysctl files "node_mapped_guar" and
> > > "node_unmapped_guar". Each file contains one percentage per node and tells
> > > the system how many percentage of all pages that should be kept in RAM as
> > > unmapped or mapped pages.
> > >
> >
> > The whole Linux VM philosophy until now has been to get away from stuff
> > like this.
> 
> Yeah, and Linux has never supported memory resource control either, right?
> 
> > If your app is really that specialised then maybe it can use mlock. If
> > not, maybe the VM is currently broken.
> >
> > You do have a real-world workload that is significantly improved by this,
> > right?
> 
> Not really, but I think there is a demand for memory resource control today.

As a person who is working on CKRM, I totally agree with this :)

> 
> The memory controller in ckrm also breaks out the LRU, but puts one
> LRU instance in each class. My code does not depend on ckrm, but it
> should be possible to have some kind of resource control with this

i do not understand how breaking lru lists into mapped/unmapped pages
and providing a knob to control the proportion of mapped/unmapped pages
in a node help in resource control.

Can you explain, please. I am very interested.

> patch and cpusets. And yeah, add numa emulation if you are out of
> nodes. =)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> / magnus
> 
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