[Devel] [PATCH v11 00/15] kmemcg shrinkers

Vladimir Davydov vdavydov at parallels.com
Mon Nov 25 22:47:00 PST 2013


Hi,

Thank you for the review. I agree with all your comments and I'll resend 
the fixed version soon.

If anyone still has something to say about the patchset, I'd be glad to 
hear from them.

On 11/25/2013 09:41 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> I ran out of steam reviewing these because there were too many things
> that should be changed in the first couple patches.
>
> I realize this is frustrating to see these type of complaints in v11
> of a patch series, but the review bandwidth was simply exceeded back
> when Glauber submitted this along with the kmem accounting patches.  A
> lot of the kmemcg commits themselves don't even have review tags or
> acks, but it all got merged anyway, and the author has moved on to
> different projects...
>
> Too much stuff slips past the only two people that have more than one
> usecase on their agenda and are willing to maintain this code base -
> which is in desparate need of rework and pushback against even more
> drive-by feature dumps.  I have repeatedly asked to split the memcg
> tree out of the memory tree to better deal with the vastly different
> developmental stages of memcg and the rest of the mm code, to no
> avail.  So I don't know what to do anymore, but this is not working.
>
> Thoughts?

That's a pity, because w/o this patchset kmemcg is in fact useless. 
Perhaps, it's worth trying to split it? (not sure if it'll help much 
though since first 11 patches are rather essential :-( )

Thanks.



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