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Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:54:16 -0500
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: asynchronous reclaim for memory.high
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Hello, Daniel.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 02:55:35PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 01:45:45PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > The setup cost can be lazy optimized but it'd still have to bounce the
> > tiny pieces of work to different threads instead of processing them in
> > one fell swoop from the same context, which most likely is gonna be
> > untenably expensive.
> 
> I see, your last mail is clearer now.  If it's easy to do, a pointer to where
> this happens would help so we're on the same page.

Network packet rx is the clearest example I think, but you already
mentioned it. Reclaim is less so but when kswapd reclaims, it walks
everybody, and there can be a lot of small cgroups.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun