Re: [patch 0/8] mm: memcg naturalization -rc2

Rik van Riel
2011-06-09T01:16:10Z

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.

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