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SubjectRe: [PATCH -V11 8/9] mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim
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On 21 Jul 2021, at 17:58, Dave Hansen wrote:

> On 7/21/21 2:38 PM, Zi Yan wrote:
>> On 21 Jul 2021, at 2:39, Huang Ying wrote:
>>> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>>>
>>> Global reclaim aims to reduce the amount of memory used on a
>>> given node or set of nodes. Migrating pages to another node
>>> serves this purpose.
>>>
>>> memcg reclaim is different. Its goal is to reduce the total
>>> memory consumption of the entire memcg, across all nodes.
>>> Migration does not assist memcg reclaim because it just moves
>>> page contents between nodes rather than actually reducing memory
>>> consumption.
> ...
>> Should this be folded into Patch 4 when can_demote() is
>> introduced?
>
> I guess it could be. But, it's logically separate since it has its
> own justification which is rather discrete.
>
> I think it's best to keep it separate.

Sure. I am OK with it.


Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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