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Re: [RFC 0/1] add support for reclaiming priorities per mem cgroup

From Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 0/1] add support for reclaiming priorities per mem cgroup
Date 2017-03-30 18:50 +0200
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> A more useful metric for memory pressure at this point is quantifying
> that time you spend thrashing: time the job spends in direct reclaim
> and on the flipside time the job waits for recently evicted pages to
> come back. Combined, that gives you a good measure of overhead from
> memory pressure; putting that in relation to a useful baseline of
> meaningful work done gives you a portable scale of how effictively
> your job is running.
>
> I'm working on that right now, hopefully I'll have something useful
> soon.

Johannes, is the work you are doing only about file pages or will it
equally apply to anon pages as well?

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Re: [RFC 0/1] add support for reclaiming priorities per mem cgroup Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2017-03-30 18:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC 0/1] add support for reclaiming priorities per mem cgroup Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> - 2017-03-30 18:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC 0/1] add support for reclaiming priorities per mem cgroup Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> - 2017-03-30 21:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC 0/1] add support for reclaiming priorities per mem cgroup Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> - 2017-03-31 00:00 +0200

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