Re: [PATCH 0/3] memdelay: memory health metric for systems and workloads

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 22:49:11 EST


On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 11:30 -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> Structure
>
> The first patch cleans up the different loadavg callsites and macros
> as the memdelay averages are going to be tracked using these.
>
> The second patch adds a distinction between page cache transitions
> (inactive list refaults) and page cache thrashing (active list
> refaults), since only the latter are unproductive refaults.
>
> The third patch finally adds the memdelay accounting and interface:
> its scheduler side identifies productive and unproductive task states,
> and the VM side aggregates them into system and cgroup domain states
> and calculates moving averages of the time spent in each state.

What tree is this against? Âttwu asm delta says "measure me".

-Mike