Re: [PATCH] mm: Proportional memory.{low,min} reclaim

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Sep 26 2019 - 07:49:58 EST


[Hmm, this one somehow slipped through. sorry about that]

On Tue 16-07-19 13:24:59, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:35:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:52:40 +0000 Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hmm, this isn't really a common situation that I'd thought about, but it
> > > > seems reasonable to make the boundaries when in low reclaim to be between
> > > > min and low, rather than 0 and low. I'll add another patch with that. Thanks
> > >
> > > It's not a stopper, so I'm perfectly fine with a follow-up patch.
> >
> > Did this happen?
> >
> > I'm still trying to get this five month old patchset unstuck :(. The
> > review status is:
> >
> > [1/3] mm, memcg: proportional memory.{low,min} reclaim
> > Acked-by: Johannes
> > Reviewed-by: Roman
> >
> > [2/3] mm, memcg: make memory.emin the baseline for utilisation determination
> > Acked-by: Johannes
> >
> > [3/3] mm, memcg: make scan aggression always exclude protection
> > Reviewed-by: Roman
>
> I forgot to send out the actual ack-tag on #, so I just did. I was
> involved in the discussions that led to that patch, the code looks
> good to me, and it's what we've been using internally for a while
> without any hiccups.
>
> > I do have a note here that mhocko intended to take a closer look but I
> > don't recall whether that happened.
>
> Michal acked #3 in 20190530065111.GC6703@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Afaik not the
> others, but #3 also doesn't make a whole lot of sense without #1...
>
> > a) say what the hell and merge them or
> > b) sit on them for another cycle or
> > c) drop them and ask Chris for a resend so we can start again.
>
> Michal, would you have time to take another look this week? Otherwise,
> I think everyone who would review them has done so.

I do not remember objecting to this particular patch. I also admit I do
not remember much about it either. I am unlikely to get to review this
in more depth these days.

It seems more people have reviewed it already so just go ahead.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs