Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm/memcg: rework inactive_ratio calculation

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 00:37:50 EST


On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:24:12 +0400
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:16:00 +0400
> > Konstantin Khlebnikov<khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> This patch removes precalculated zone->inactive_ratio.
> >> Now it always calculated in inactive_anon_is_low() from current lru size.
> >> After that we can merge memcg and non-memcg cases and drop duplicated code.
> >>
> >> We can drop precalculated ratio, because its calculation fast enough to do it
> >> each time. Plus precalculation uses zone size as basis, this estimation not
> >> always match with page lru size, for example if a significant proportion
> >> of memory occupied by kernel objects.om memory cgroup which is triggered this memory reclaim.
> This is more reason
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov<khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Maybe good....but please don't change the user interface /proc/zoneinfo implicitly.
> > How about calculating inactive_ratio at reading /proc/zoneinfo ?
>
> I don't know... Anybody need this?

I don't like changes in user interface without any caution in feature-removal-schedule.txt
I just don't Ack. If others say ok, please go ahead with them.

Thanks,
-Kame

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