[PATCH v5 02/14] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed.
From: Glauber Costa <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-16 10:17:02
Also in:
linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
control group - memory resource controller (memcg), memory management, the rest · Maintainers:
Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds
From: Suleiman Souhlal <redacted> mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before kmem accounting, and expects three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 pages, or being called for a hugepage. If we call for 2 or 3 pages (and both the stack and several slabs used in process creation are such, at least with the debug options I had), it assumed it's being called for stock and just retried without reclaiming. Fix that by passing down a minsize argument in addition to the csize. And what to do about that (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) retry? If it's needed at all (and presumably is since it's there, perhaps to handle races), then it should be extended to more than PAGE_SIZE, yet how far? And should there be a retry count limit, of what? For now retry up to COSTLY_ORDER (as page_alloc.c does) and make sure not to do it if __GFP_NORETRY. [v4: fixed nr pages calculation pointed out by Christoph Lameter ] Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <redacted> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <redacted> Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <redacted> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <redacted> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 47cb019..7a9652a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c@@ -2226,7 +2226,8 @@ enum { }; static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, - unsigned int nr_pages, bool oom_check) + unsigned int nr_pages, unsigned int min_pages, + bool oom_check) { unsigned long csize = nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE; struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
@@ -2249,18 +2250,18 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, } else mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_res_counter(fail_res, res); /* - * nr_pages can be either a huge page (HPAGE_PMD_NR), a batch - * of regular pages (CHARGE_BATCH), or a single regular page (1). - * * Never reclaim on behalf of optional batching, retry with a * single page instead. */ - if (nr_pages == CHARGE_BATCH) + if (nr_pages > min_pages) return CHARGE_RETRY; if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) return CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK; + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) + return CHARGE_NOMEM; + ret = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags); if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages) return CHARGE_RETRY;
@@ -2273,7 +2274,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, * unlikely to succeed so close to the limit, and we fall back * to regular pages anyway in case of failure. */ - if (nr_pages == 1 && ret) + if (nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) && ret) return CHARGE_RETRY; /*
@@ -2408,7 +2409,8 @@ again: nr_oom_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; } - ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, oom_check); + ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, nr_pages, + oom_check); switch (ret) { case CHARGE_OK: break;
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