From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeelb@google.com>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Ivan Babrou" <ivan@cloudflare.com>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
" Michal Koutný " <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Waiman Long" <longman@redhat.com>,
kernel-team@cloudflare.com, "Wei Xu" <weixugc@google.com>,
"Greg Thelen" <gthelen@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:12:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231018141213.b80ad9742d41dd11fb122e10@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231010032117.1577496-1-yosryahmed@google.com>
On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:21:11 +0000 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> This series attempts to address shortages in today's approach for memcg
> stats flushing, namely occasionally stale or expensive stat reads. The
> series does so by changing the threshold that we use to decide whether
> to trigger a flush to be per memcg instead of global (patch 3), and then
> changing flushing to be per memcg (i.e. subtree flushes) instead of
> global (patch 5).
>
> Patch 3 & 5 are the core of the series, and they include more details
> and testing results. The rest are either cleanups or prep work.
>
> This series replaces the "memcg: more sophisticated stats flushing"
> series [1], which also replaces another series, in a long list of
> attempts to improve memcg stats flushing. It is not a new version of
> the same patchset as it is a completely different approach. This is
> based on collected feedback from discussions on lkml in all previous
> attempts. Hopefully, this is the final attempt.
Seems that Shakeel's performance concerns have largely been set aside.
It would be good to have some affirmative input on this patchset from
the memcg developers, please?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-18 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-10 3:21 [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: memcg: change flush_next_time to flush_last_time Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: memcg: move vmstats structs definition above flushing code Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:24 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 20:45 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-10 21:02 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 22:21 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-11 0:36 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-11 1:48 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-11 12:45 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 3:13 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 8:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 8:04 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 13:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-10-12 23:28 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-13 2:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-10-13 2:38 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 13:35 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 15:10 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 21:05 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 21:16 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 21:19 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 21:38 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 22:23 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-14 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2023-10-16 18:42 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-17 23:52 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-18 8:22 ` Oliver Sang
2023-10-18 8:54 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-20 16:17 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-20 17:23 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-20 17:42 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-23 1:25 ` Feng Tang
2023-10-23 18:25 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-24 2:13 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-24 6:56 ` Oliver Sang
2023-10-24 7:14 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-25 6:09 ` Oliver Sang
2023-10-25 6:22 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-25 17:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-25 18:36 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent() Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm: memcg: restore subtree stats flushing Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds domenico cerasuolo
2023-10-10 19:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-18 21:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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