Re: [RFC v3 0/3] vmpressure_fd: Linux VM pressure notifications

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:02:45AM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> 
> > >> In the case I outlined below, for backwards compatibility. What I
> > >> actually mean is that memcg *currently* allows arbitrary notifications.
> > >> One way to merge those, while moving to a saner 3-point notification, is
> > >> to still allow the old writes and fit them in the closest bucket.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Yeah, but I'm wondering why three is the right answer.
> > > 
> > 
> > This is unrelated to what I am talking about.
> > I am talking about pre-defined values with a specific event meaning (in
> > his patchset, 3) vs arbitrary numbers valued in bytes.
> > 
> 
> Right, and I don't see how you can map the memcg thresholds onto Anton's 
> scheme

BTW, there's interface for OOM notification in memcg. See oom_control.
I guess other pressure levels can also fit to the interface.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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