On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:58:52 +0400 Glauber Costa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:46:05 +0400 > > Glauber Costa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:03:32 -0500 > >> > Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > The answer for all of your questions above can be summarized by noting > >> >> > that for the lack of other users (at the time), this patch does the > >> >> > bare minimum > >> >> > for memcg needs. I agree, for instance, that it would be good to pass > >> >> > the level > >> >> > but since memcg won't do anything with thta, I didn't pass it. > >> >> > > >> >> > That should be extended if you need to. > >> >> > >> >> That works for me. That is, including this minimal version first and > >> >> extending it when we get in-tree users. > >> > > >> > Btw, there's something I was thinking just right now. If/when we > >> > convert shrink functions to use this API, they will come to depend > >> > on CONFIG_MEMCG=y. IOW, they won't work if CONFIG_MEMCG=n. > >> > > >> > Is this acceptable (this is an honest question)? Because today, they > >> > do work when CONFIG_MEMCG=n. Should those shrink functions use the > >> > shrinker API as a fallback? > >> > >> If you have a non-memcg user, that should obviously be available for > >> CONFIG_MEMCG=n > > > > OK, which means we'll have to change it, right? Because, if I'm not > > missing something, today vmpressure does depend on CONFIG_MEMCG=y. > > You mean the main vmpressure mechanism? > Sorry, this was out of my mental cachelines. Yes, vmpressure depends > on MEMCG, because > the pressure interface is memcg-specific (global == root memcg) > > You might want to change that so you can reuse the mechanism and let > only the user interface > depend on memcg. OK, that makes sense. Thanks Glauber. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
