Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2023 18:07:04 +0200 | From | Michal Koutný <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] mm: memcg: let non-unified root stats flushes help unified flushes |
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:54:46AM -0700, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote: > How would that create a userspace visible behavior that a dependency > can be formed on?
A userspace process reading out root memory.stat more frequently than in-kernel periodic flusher.
> Users expecting reclaim to be faster right after reading root stats?
Yes, that is what I had in mind.
> I would guess that would be too flaky to cause a behavior that people > can depend on tbh.
I agree it's a weird dependency. As I wrote, nothing that would be hard to take away.
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