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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: memcg: export workingset refault stats for cgroup v1
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 3:06 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:58 AM Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Workingset refault stats are important and usefule metrics to measure
> > how well reclaimer and swapping work and how healthy the services are,
> > but they are just available for cgroup v2. There are still plenty users
> > with cgroup v1, export the stats for cgroup v1.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > I do understand the development of cgroup v1 is actually stalled and
> > the community is reluctant to accept new features for v1. However
> > the workingset refault stats are really quite useful and exporting
> > two new stats, which have been supported by v2, seems ok IMHO. So
> > hopefully this patch could be considered. Thanks.
> >
>
> Is just workingset refault good enough for your use-case? What about
> the other workingset stats? I don't have a strong opinion against
> adding these to v1 and I think these specific stats should be fine.
> (There is subtlety in exposing objcg based stats (i.e. reparenting) in
> v1 due to non-hierarchical stats in v1. I remember Yosry and Muchun
> were looking into that.)

I think only kernel memory stats and zswap stats are objcg-based at
this point, right? The workingset refault stats seem to be memcg-based
and should not face the reparenting problem.

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