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authorMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>2025-11-14 19:21:26 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2025-11-14 11:21:05 -1000
commit3755c11679d4f826e35d7a565ff366b8f64684c1 (patch)
tree6fae2d93edc2f92d773a3cb303e873472a50c7ad
parente27179958ce76b182ea38718113cdff1d2bb7d10 (diff)
docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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@@ -1952,6 +1952,10 @@ When the reclaim targets ancestors of A, the effective protection of B is
capped by the protection value configured for A (and any other intermediate
ancestors between A and the target).
+To express indifference about relative sibling protection, it is suggested to
+use memory_recursiveprot. Configuring all descendants of a parent with finite
+protection to "max" works but it may unnecessarily skew memory.events:low
+field.
Memory Ownership
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