Re: [PATCH] Make SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING configurable

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Oct 04 2019 - 10:43:28 EST


On Fri 04-10-19 06:45:21, Daniel Colascione wrote:
[...]
> Nobody has demonstrated that split RSS accounting actually helps in
> the real world. But I've described above, concretely, how split RSS
> accounting hurts. I've been trying for over a year to either disable
> split RSS accounting or to let people opt out of it. If you won't
> remove split RSS accounting and you won't let me add a configuration
> knob that lets people opt out of it, what will you accept?

What is an argument to keep it around?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs