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From: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
To: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	shashim@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: Query on per app memory cgroup
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:52:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed013bac-e3b9-feb1-c7ce-26c982bf04b7@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA_GA1eMYOPwm8iqn6QLVRvn7vFi3Ae6CbpkLU7iO=J+jE=Yiw@mail.gmail.com>



On 2/17/2017 6:47 PM, Bob Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We were trying to implement the per app memory cgroup that Johannes
>> suggested (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/19/358) and later discussed during
>> Minchan's proposal of per process reclaim
>> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/13/570). The test was done on Android target
>> with 2GB of RAM and cgroupv1. The first test done was to just create per
>> app cgroups without modifying any cgroup controls. 2 kinds of tests were
>> done which gives similar kind of observation. One was to just open
>> applications in sequence and repeat this N times (20 apps, so around 20
>> memcgs max at a time). Another test was to create around 20 cgroups and
>> perform a make (not kernel, another less heavy source) in each of them.
>>
>> It is observed that because of the creation of memcgs per app, the per
>> memcg LRU size is so low and results in kswapd priority drop. This results
> How did you confirm that? Traced the get_scan_count() function?
> You may hack this function for more verification.
This was confirmed by adding some VM event counters in get_scan_count.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-20  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b7ee0ad3-a580-b38a-1e90-035c77b181ea@codeaurora.org>
2017-02-09 11:16 ` Query on per app memory cgroup Vinayak Menon
2017-02-17 13:17   ` Bob Liu
2017-02-20  5:22     ` Vinayak Menon [this message]
2017-02-20 12:29       ` Bob Liu
2017-02-21  5:19         ` Vinayak Menon
2017-02-21  4:31   ` Balbir Singh
2017-02-21  6:01     ` Vinayak Menon

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