From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07DC36B007D for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DF01EC2.8010105@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:15:46 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] mm: memcg naturalization -rc2 References: <1306909519-7286-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20110602073335.GA20630@cmpxchg.org> <20110602100007.GB20725@cmpxchg.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hiroyuki Kamezawa Cc: Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Daisuke Nishimura , Balbir Singh , Ying Han , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mel Gorman , Greg Thelen , Michel Lespinasse , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/02/2011 08:59 AM, Hiroyuki Kamezawa wrote: > It seems your current series is a mixture of 2 works as > "re-desgin of softlimit" and "removal of global LRU". > I don't understand why you need 2 works at once. That seems pretty obvious. With the global LRU gone, the only way to reclaim pages in a global fashion (because the zone is low on memory), is to reclaim from all the memcgs in the zone. Doing that requires that the softlimit stuff is changed, and not only the biggest offender is attacked. -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org