Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH][0/4] Memory controller (RSS Control)

[Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>]

Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>> On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Alas, I fear this might have quite bad worst-case behaviour.  One small
>>> container which is under constant memory pressure will churn the
>>> system-wide LRUs like mad, and will consume rather a lot of system time.
>>> So it's a point at which container A can deleteriously affect things which
>>> are running in other containers, which is exactly what we're supposed to
>>> not do.
>>
>> I think it's OK for a container to consume lots of system time during
>> reclaim, as long as we can account that time to the container involved
>> (i.e. if it's done during direct reclaim rather than by something like
>> kswapd).
> hmm, is it ok to scan 100Gb of RAM for 10MB RAM container?
> in UBC patch set we used page beancounters to track containter pages.
> This allows to make efficient scan contoler and reclamation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kirill

Hi, Kirill,

Yes, that's a problem, but I think it's a problem that can be solved
in steps. First step, add reclaim. Second step, optimize reclaim.

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	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh