Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:54:43 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm/memcontrol: Finer-grained memory control |
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On Wed 10-04-19 15:13:19, Waiman Long wrote: > The current control mechanism for memory cgroup v2 lumps all the memory > together irrespective of the type of memory objects. However, there > are cases where users may have more concern about one type of memory > usage than the others. > > We have customer request to limit memory consumption on anonymous memory > only as they said the feature was available in other OSes like Solaris.
Please be more specific about a usecase.
> To allow finer-grained control of memory, this patchset 2 new control > knobs for memory controller: > - memory.subset.list for specifying the type of memory to be under control. > - memory.subset.high for the high limit of memory consumption of that > memory type.
Please be more specific about the semantic.
I am really skeptical about this feature to be honest, though.
> For simplicity, the limit is not hierarchical and applies to only tasks > in the local memory cgroup.
This is a no-go to begin with.
> Waiman Long (2): > mm/memcontrol: Finer-grained control for subset of allocated memory > mm/memcontrol: Add a new MEMCG_SUBSET_HIGH event > > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 35 +++++++++ > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 8 ++ > mm/memcontrol.c | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++- > 3 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > -- > 2.18.1
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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