Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics

From: Hao Jia
Date: Tue Mar 18 2025 - 22:38:26 EST




On 2025/3/18 20:59, Michal Koutný wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 08:03:44PM +0800, Hao Jia <jiahao.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How silly is it to have multiple memory.reclaim writers?
Would it make sense to bind those statistics to each such a write(r)
instead of the aggregated totals?


I'm sorry, I didn't understand what your suggestion was conveying.

For instance one reclaimer for page cache and another for anon (in one
memcg):
echo "1G swappiness=0" >memory.reclaim &
echo "1G swappiness=200" >memory.reclaim


Thank you for your suggestion.

However, binding the statistics to the memory.reclaim writers may not be suitable for our scenario. The userspace proactive memory reclaimer triggers proactive memory reclaim on different memory cgroups, and all memory reclaim statistics would be tied to this userspace proactive memory reclaim process. This does not distinguish the proactive memory reclaim status of different cgroups.


Thanks,
Hao