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

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Mon 28-09-20 17:02:16, Johannes Weiner wrote:
[...]
> My take is that a proactive reclaim feature, whose goal is never to
> thrash or punish but to keep the LRUs warm and the workingset trimmed,
> would ideally have:
> 
> - a pressure or size target specified by userspace but with
>   enforcement driven inside the kernel from the allocation path
> 
> - the enforcement work NOT be done synchronously by the workload
>   (something I'd argue we want for *all* memory limits)
> 
> - the enforcement work ACCOUNTED to the cgroup, though, since it's the
>   cgroup's memory allocations causing the work (again something I'd
>   argue we want in general)
> 
> - a delegatable knob that is independent of setting the maximum size
>   of a container, as that expresses a different type of policy
> 
> - if size target, self-limiting (ha) enforcement on a pressure
>   threshold or stop enforcement when the userspace component dies
> 
> Thoughts?

Agreed with above points. What do you think about
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922190859.GH12990@dhcp22.suse.cz. I assume
that you do not want to override memory.high to implement this because
that tends to be tricky from the configuration POV as you mentioned
above. But a new limit (memory.middle for a lack of a better name) to
define the background reclaim sounds like a good fit with above points.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs