Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Apr 2015 18:17:17 +0300 | From | Vladimir Davydov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status |
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 04:44:31PM +0200, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:30:36 +0300 > Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> wrote: > > > Memcg/kmem reclaim support has been finally merged. Reflect this in the > > documentation. > > So the text you've removed says not to select kmem support "unless for > development purposes." Do we now believe that this feature is ready for > use in a production setting? If the answer is "yes," I'd be happy to > take this through the docs tree.
I added this warning because of the following issues, which made memcg/kmem useless:
- no reclaim support - lack of memcg slab caches auto destruction - several obvious races/bugs
They are all fixed now, so I think the answer is yes, it can be used in production. There might be bugs that I am not aware of, of course, but It must be safe to compile it in anyway, because memcg/kmem accounting is disabled by default and must be enabled explicitly at runtime by writing to cgroup/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes.
Thanks, Vladimir
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