[PATCH 02/11] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed.
From: Glauber Costa <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-25 14:18:15
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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 slab 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 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), stay safe with a cond_resched(), 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> Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <redacted> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 9304db2..8e601e8 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c@@ -2158,8 +2158,16 @@ enum { CHARGE_OOM_DIE, /* the current is killed because of OOM */ }; +/* + * We need a number that is small enough to be likely to have been + * reclaimed even under pressure, but not too big to trigger unnecessary + * retries + */ +#define NR_PAGES_TO_RETRY 2 + 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;
@@ -2182,18 +2190,18 @@ 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;
@@ -2206,7 +2214,7 @@ 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 <= NR_PAGES_TO_RETRY && ret) return CHARGE_RETRY; /*
@@ -2341,7 +2349,8 @@ 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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