From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, mhocko@suse.cz
Subject: Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test'
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:37:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150126133712.GB9738@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <109548.1422221788@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 04:36:28PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:16:23 -0500, Johannes Weiner said:
>
> > I would generally agree, but this code, which implements a userspace
> > interface, is already grotesquely inefficient and heavyhanded. It's
> > also superseded in the next release, so we can just keep this simple
> > at this point.
>
> Wait, what? Userspace interface that's superceded in the next release?
The existing interface and its implementation are going to remain in
place, obviously, we can't break userspace. But the semantics are
ill-defined and the implementation bad to a point where we decided to
fix both by adding a second interface and encouraging users to switch.
Now if a user were to report that these off-node allocations are
actually creating problems in real life I would fix it. But I'm
fairly certain that remote access costs are overshadowed by the
reclaim stalls this mechanism creates.
So what I was trying to say above is that I don't see a point in
complicating the v1 implementation for a questionable minor
optimization when v2 is already being added to address much more
severe shortcomings in v1.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 23:05 mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04 uploaded akpm
2015-01-23 5:04 ` mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failures due to 'mm: account pmd page tables to the process' Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 11:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-23 15:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-24 2:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-24 3:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-24 5:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26 12:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-26 14:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26 14:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 16:16 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-27 16:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-28 6:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 5:08 ` mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test' Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 14:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 15:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 16:02 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 16:59 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 17:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 17:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-24 2:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 17:24 ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-28 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 15:46 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 16:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 20:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 20:33 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 21:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-24 7:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-25 21:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-01-26 13:37 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
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