From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:11:49 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502BBC35.809@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001392ac15404-43a3fd2c-a6d3-4985-b173-74bb586ad47c-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On 08/15/2012 06:47 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
>>> That is not what the kernel does, in general. We assume that if he wants
>>> that memory and we can serve it, we should. Also, not all kernel memory
>>> is unreclaimable. We can shrink the slabs, for instance. Ying Han
>>> claims she has patches for that already...
>>
>> Are those patches somewhere around?
>
> You can already shrink the reclaimable slabs (dentries / inodes) via
> calls to the subsystem specific shrinkers. Did Ying Han do anything to
> go beyond that?
>
That is not enough for us.
We would like to make sure that the objects being discarded belong to
the memcg which is under pressure. We don't need to be perfect here, and
an occasional slip is totally fine. But if in general, shrinking from
memcg A will mostly wipe out objects from memcg B, we harmed the system
in return for nothing good.
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Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-09 13:01 [PATCH v2 00/11] Request for Inclusion: kmem controller for memcg Glauber Costa
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] memcg: Make it possible to use the stock for more than one page Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 15:12 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 15:42 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-10 16:49 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-10 17:28 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-10 17:56 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-10 17:30 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-10 18:52 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-10 18:54 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-13 8:05 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-13 13:10 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] memcg: change defines to an enum Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 15:43 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] kmem accounting basic infrastructure Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 17:02 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-13 8:36 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 2:38 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-14 16:21 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 9:33 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 11:12 ` James Bottomley
2012-08-15 12:55 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 13:29 ` James Bottomley
2012-08-15 12:39 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 12:53 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 13:02 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 13:04 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 13:26 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 13:31 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 14:10 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 14:11 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 14:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-15 15:11 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-08-15 15:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-15 15:35 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 17:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-15 18:11 ` Ying Han
2012-08-15 18:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-15 19:22 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 18:07 ` Ying Han
2012-08-15 15:19 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-15 15:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-15 18:01 ` Ying Han
2012-08-15 18:00 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 19:50 ` Ying Han
2012-08-16 15:25 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-17 5:58 ` Ying Han
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] Add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 17:07 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] memcg: kmem controller infrastructure Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 17:27 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-13 8:28 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-14 18:58 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-15 9:18 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 16:38 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-15 17:00 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 17:12 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-15 19:31 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-16 3:37 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-16 7:47 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-20 13:36 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-20 15:29 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 2:36 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-17 7:04 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-14 11:00 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-11 5:11 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-13 8:07 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-13 9:59 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-13 21:21 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-14 17:25 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 9:42 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 10:44 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 13:09 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 14:01 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 14:23 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-15 14:27 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-16 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-16 9:57 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-16 15:05 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-16 15:22 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-21 21:50 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-22 8:35 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-23 0:07 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-23 7:51 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] mm: Allocate kernel pages to the right memcg Glauber Costa
2012-08-09 16:33 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-09 16:42 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 17:33 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-13 8:03 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-13 8:57 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-10 17:36 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-13 8:02 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-14 15:16 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-15 9:08 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 13:22 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-15 13:39 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 13:51 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-15 9:24 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] memcg: disable kmem code when not in use Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 7:02 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-17 7:01 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 8:04 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] memcg: propagate kmem limiting information to children Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 17:51 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-13 8:01 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 9:00 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-17 9:15 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 9:35 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-17 10:07 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 10:35 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-17 10:36 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-21 7:54 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-21 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-21 9:17 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-21 9:22 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-21 10:00 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-21 10:01 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-22 1:09 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-22 8:22 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-22 23:23 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-23 7:55 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-24 5:06 ` Greg Thelen
2012-08-24 5:23 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-17 10:39 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] memcg: allow a memcg with kmem charges to be destructed Glauber Costa
2012-08-21 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-22 8:36 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-09 13:01 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] protect architectures where THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE against fork bombs Glauber Costa
2012-08-10 17:54 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-08-21 9:35 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-21 9:40 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-21 10:57 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-17 21:37 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Request for Inclusion: kmem controller for memcg Ying Han
2012-08-20 7:51 ` Glauber Costa
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