From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yc-core@yandex-team.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add memory.compact_unevictable_allowed cgroup attribute
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:17:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260317121736.f73a828de2a989d1a07efea1@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260317100058.2316997-1-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru>
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:00:58 +0300 Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> The current global sysctl compact_unevictable_allowed is too coarse.
> In environments with mixed workloads, we may want to protect specific
> important cgroups from compaction to ensure their stability and
> responsiveness, while allowing compaction for others.
>
> This patch introduces a per-memcg compact_unevictable_allowed attribute.
> This allows granular control over whether unevictable pages in a specific
> cgroup can be compacted. The global sysctl still takes precedence if set
> to disallow compaction, but this new setting allows opting out specific
> cgroups.
>
> This also adds a new ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE_CHECK_MEMCG flag to
> isolate_migratepages_block to preserve the old behavior for the
> ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE flag unconditionally used by
> isolage_migratepages_range.
AI review asked questions:
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260317100058.2316997-1-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru
next parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2026-03-17 19:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2026-03-18 8:25 ` [PATCH] mm: add memory.compact_unevictable_allowed cgroup attribute Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <7ca9876c-f3fa-441c-9a21-ae0ee5523318@yandex-team.ru>
2026-03-18 9:20 ` Michal Hocko
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2026-03-18 10:01 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <b9ceff32-1f8f-454e-84ce-b8788b3a4952@yandex-team.ru>
2026-03-18 11:47 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <fd7409a3-5f8c-492b-836d-559b001a61dd@yandex-team.ru>
2026-03-18 19:55 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-03-19 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2026-03-19 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
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