Thread (45 messages) 45 messages, 4 authors, 2018-01-25

Re: [PATCH v4] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Date: 2018-01-11 12:46:33
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On Thu 11-01-18 15:21:33, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

On 01/11/2018 01:42 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
quoted
On Wed 10-01-18 15:43:17, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
[...]
quoted
@@ -2506,15 +2480,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		if (!ret)
 			break;
 
-		try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, 1, GFP_KERNEL, !memsw);
-
-		curusage = page_counter_read(counter);
-		/* Usage is reduced ? */
-		if (curusage >= oldusage)
-			retry_count--;
-		else
-			oldusage = curusage;
-	} while (retry_count);
+		usage = page_counter_read(counter);
+		if (!try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, usage - limit,
+						GFP_KERNEL, !memsw)) {
If the usage drops below limit in the meantime then you get underflow
and reclaim the whole memcg. I do not think this is a good idea. This
can also lead to over reclaim. Why don't you simply stick with the
original SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX (aka 1 for try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages)?
Because, if new limit is gigabytes bellow the current usage, retrying to set
new limit after reclaiming only 32 pages seems unreasonable.
Who would do insanity like that?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -2487,8 +2487,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		if (!ret)
 			break;
 
-		usage = page_counter_read(counter);
-		if (!try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, usage - limit,
+		nr_pages = max_t(long, 1, page_counter_read(counter) - limit);
+		if (!try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages,
 						GFP_KERNEL, !memsw)) {
 			ret = -EBUSY;
 			break;
How does this address the over reclaim concern?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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