Re: [PATCH resend] memcg: introduce per-memcg reclaim interface

[Roman Gushchin]

> On Apr 1, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 11:39:30AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>> The interface you're proposing is not really extensible, so we'll likely need to
>> introduce a new interface like memory.reclaim_ext very soon. Why not create
>> an extensible API from scratch?
>> 
>> I'm looking at cgroup v2 documentation which describes various interface files
>> formats and it seems like given the number of potential optional arguments
>> the best option is nested keyed (please, refer to the Interface Files section).
>> 
>> E.g. the format can be:
>> echo "1G type=file nodemask=1-2 timeout=30s" > memory.reclaim
> 
> Yeah, that syntax looks perfect.
> 
> But why do you think it's not extensible from the current patch? We
> can add those arguments one by one as we agree on them, and return
> -EINVAL if somebody passes an unknown parameter.
> 
> It seems to me the current proposal is forward-compatible that way
> (with the current set of keyword pararms being the empty set :-))

It wasn’t obvious to me. We spoke about positional arguments and then it wasn’t clear how to add them in a backward-compatible way. The last thing we want is a bunch of memory.reclaim* interfaces :)

So yeah, let’s just describe it properly in the documentation, no code changes are needed.