Re: [PATCH][RFC] dirty balancing for cgroups

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-07-11T08:52:13Z

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:34:46 +0900 (JST)
yamamoto@valinux.co.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:

> hi,
>
> > > my patch penalizes heavy-writer cgroups as task_dirty_limit does
> > > for heavy-writer tasks. i don't think that it's necessary to be
> > > tied to the memory subsystem because i merely want to group writers.
> > >
> > Hmm, maybe what I need is different from this ;)
> > Does not seem to be a help for memory reclaim under memcg.
>
> to implement what you need, i think that we need to keep track of
> the numbers of dirty-pages in each memory cgroups as a first step.
> do you agree?
>
yes, I think so, now.

may be not difficult but will add extra overhead ;( Sigh..

Thanks,
-Kame