From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757114AbZBPLJT (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:09:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756352AbZBPLI4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:08:56 -0500 Received: from e28smtp04.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.4]:59595 "EHLO e28smtp04.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755655AbZBPLIz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:08:55 -0500 From: Balbir Singh To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Sudhir Kumar , YAMAMOTO Takashi , Bharata B Rao , Paul Menage , lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KOSAKI Motohiro , David Rientjes , Pavel Emelianov , Dhaval Giani , Balbir Singh , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:38:44 +0530 Message-Id: <20090216110844.29795.17804.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Subject: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Memory controller soft limit patches (v2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Balbir Singh Changelog v2...v1 1. Soft limits now support hierarchies 2. Use spinlocks instead of mutexes for synchronization of the RB tree Here is v2 of the new soft limit implementation. Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares. The CPU controllers interpretation of shares is very different though. We'll compare shares and soft limits below. Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory contention do the limits become active. The current soft limits implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory controller and not for memory+swap controller. The implementation maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount. This is an RFC implementation and is not meant for inclusion TODOs 1. The current implementation maintains the delta from the soft limit and pushes back groups to their soft limits, a ratio of delta/soft_limit is more useful 2. It would be nice to have more targetted reclaim (in terms of pages to recalim) interface. So that groups are pushed back, close to their soft limits. Tests ----- I've run two memory intensive workloads with differing soft limits and seen that they are pushed back to their soft limit on contention. Their usage was their soft limit plus additional memory that they were able to grab on the system. Please review, comment. Series ------ memcg-soft-limit-documentation.patch memcg-add-soft-limit-interface.patch memcg-organize-over-soft-limit-groups.patch memcg-soft-limit-reclaim-on-contention.patch --- 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) -- Balbir