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From: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, vmpressure: add high level
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:05:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017030512.GA21327@teo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1310161738410.10147@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

Hello David,

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 05:43:55PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> Vmpressure has two important levels: medium and critical.  Medium is 
> defined at 60% and critical is defined at 95%.
> 
> We have a customer who needs a notification at a higher level than medium, 
> which is slight to moderate reclaim activity, and before critical to start 
> throttling incoming requests to save memory and avoid oom.
> 
> This patch adds the missing link: a high level defined at 80%.
> 
> In the future, it would probably be better to allow the user to specify an 
> integer ratio for the notification rather than relying on arbitrarily 
> specified levels.

Does the customer need to differentiate the two levels (medium and high),
or the customer only interested in this (80%) specific level?

In the latter case, instead of adding a new level I would vote for adding
a [sysfs] knob for modifying medium level's threshold.

Thanks,

Anton

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-17  0:43 [patch] mm, vmpressure: add high level David Rientjes
2013-10-17  3:05 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2013-10-17  3:44   ` David Rientjes
2013-10-17  3:51 ` [bug] get_maintainer.pl incomplete output David Rientjes
2013-10-17  4:03   ` Joe Perches
2013-10-17  4:19     ` David Rientjes
2013-10-17  4:36       ` Joe Perches
2013-10-17 19:12   ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-17 19:23     ` Joe Perches
2013-10-18  4:17     ` Joe Perches
2013-10-18 22:58       ` David Rientjes
2013-10-19  0:25         ` Joe Perches
2013-11-14 21:56       ` [PATCH] get_maintainer: Add commit author information to --rolestats Joe Perches
2013-11-15  2:16         ` Chen Gang

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