On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 3:48 PM Yu Zhao [off-list ref] wrote:

The current page reclaim is too expensive in terms of CPU usage and it
often makes poor choices about what to evict. This patchset offers an
alternative solution that is performant, versatile and
straightforward.

So apart from my complaints about asking users config questions that
simply should not be asked, I really think this just needs to start
getting merged.

We've seen several numbers on the upsides, and I don't think we'll see
any of the downsides until we try it. And I don't think there is any
question that we _shouldn't_ try it, given the numbers posted.

But yeah, I certainly _hope_ that all the benchmarking has been done
with a unified set of config values, and it's not some kind of bogus
"cherry-picked config values for this particular machine" kind of
benchmarking that has been done.

Because that isn't valid benchmarking - comparing some "tuned for this
paeticular machine or load" setup to a default one is just not worth
even setting numbers to, and debases the whole value of posting
results.

                    Linus

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