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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:27:12 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Consider subtrees in memory.events
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:11:44AM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Hi Tejun,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:07 AM Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, Michal.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 05:50:58PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > Yeah, cgroup.events and .stat files as some of the local stats would
> > > > be useful too, so if we don't flip memory.events we'll end up with sth
> > > > like cgroup.events.local, memory.events.tree and memory.stats.local,
> > > > which is gonna be hilarious.
> > >
> > > Why cannot we simply have memory.events_tree and be done with it? Sure
> > > the file names are not goin to be consistent which is a minus but that
> > > ship has already sailed some time ago.
> >
> > Because the overall cost of shitty interface will be way higher in the
> > longer term.  cgroup2 interface is far from perfect but is way better
> > than cgroup1 especially for the memory controller.  Why do you think
> > that is?
> >
> 
> I thought you are fine with the separate interface for the hierarchical events.

Every other file in cgroup2 is hierarchical, but for recursive
memory.events you'd need to read memory.events_tree?

Do we hate our users that much? :(