On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 15:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I think memory allocation and io waits can't be decoupled from
> > > scheduling as they are now.
> >
> > The scheduler is not decoupled from either, it is intimately involved
> > in both. However, none of the decision making smarts for either reside
> > in the scheduler, nor should they.
>
> It belongs in both.
If mm decision making belongs within the process scheduler, it follows
that IO requests, dirty page writeback etc. do as well. Nope, I don't
think we want to create a squid-uler, with tentacles extending all over
the dang kernel.
The thrashing problem could use some attention, but we'll have to agree
to disagree about the scheduler growing mm, io (etc) smarts.
-Mike
