On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM Shakeel Butt [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Daniel Sedlak wrote:
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How about we track the actions taken by the callers of
mem_cgroup_sk_under_memory_pressure()? Basically if network stack
reduces the buffer size or whatever the other actions it may take when
mem_cgroup_sk_under_memory_pressure() returns, tracking those actions
is what I think is needed here, at least for the debugging use-case.
I am not against it, but I feel that conveying those tracked actions (or how
to represent them) to the user will be much harder. Are there already
existing APIs to push this information to the user?
I discussed with Wei Wang and she suggested we should start tracking the
calls to tcp_adjust_rcv_ssthresh() first. So, something like the
following. I would like feedback frm networking folks as well:
I think we could simply put memcg_memory_event() in
mem_cgroup_sk_under_memory_pressure() when it returns
true.
Other than tcp_adjust_rcv_ssthresh(), if tcp_under_memory_pressure()
returns true, it indicates something bad will happen, failure to expand
rcvbuf and sndbuf, need to prune out-of-order queue more aggressively,
FIN deferred to a retransmitted packet.
Also, we could cover mptcp and sctp too.
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From 54bd2bf6681c1c694295646532f2a62a205ee41a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:27:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: track network throttling due to memcg memory pressure
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 1 +
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 5 ++++-
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 ++++++--
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 873e510d6f8d..5fe254813123 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ enum memcg_memory_event {
MEMCG_SWAP_HIGH,
MEMCG_SWAP_MAX,
MEMCG_SWAP_FAIL,
+ MEMCG_SOCK_THROTTLED,
MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS,
};
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4deda33625f4..9207bba34e2e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4463,6 +4463,8 @@ static void __memory_events_show(struct seq_file *m, atomic_long_t *events)
atomic_long_read(&events[MEMCG_OOM_KILL]));
seq_printf(m, "oom_group_kill %lu\n",
atomic_long_read(&events[MEMCG_OOM_GROUP_KILL]));
+ seq_printf(m, "sock_throttled %lu\n",
+ atomic_long_read(&events[MEMCG_SOCK_THROTTLED]));
}
static int memory_events_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 31ea5af49f2d..2206968fb505 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ static void tcp_grow_window(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
* Adjust rcv_ssthresh according to reserved mem
*/
tcp_adjust_rcv_ssthresh(sk);
+ memcg_memory_event(sk->sk_memcg, MEMCG_SOCK_THROTTLED);
}
}
@@ -5764,8 +5765,10 @@ static int tcp_prune_queue(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *in_skb)
if (!tcp_can_ingest(sk, in_skb))
tcp_clamp_window(sk);
- else if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk))
+ else if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk)) {
tcp_adjust_rcv_ssthresh(sk);
+ memcg_memory_event(sk->sk_memcg, MEMCG_SOCK_THROTTLED);
+ }
if (tcp_can_ingest(sk, in_skb))
return 0;diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index bb3576ac0ad7..8fe8d973d7ac 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3275,8 +3275,10 @@ u32 __tcp_select_window(struct sock *sk)
if (free_space < (full_space >> 1)) {
icsk->icsk_ack.quick = 0;
- if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk))
+ if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk)) {
tcp_adjust_rcv_ssthresh(sk);
+ memcg_memory_event(sk->sk_memcg, MEMCG_SOCK_THROTTLED);
+ }
/* free_space might become our new window, make sure we don't
* increase it due to wscale.@@ -3334,8 +3336,10 @@ u32 __tcp_select_window(struct sock *sk)
if (free_space < (full_space >> 1)) {
icsk->icsk_ack.quick = 0;
- if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk))
+ if (tcp_under_memory_pressure(sk)) {
tcp_adjust_rcv_ssthresh(sk);
+ memcg_memory_event(sk->sk_memcg, MEMCG_SOCK_THROTTLED);
+ }
/* if free space is too low, return a zero window */
if (free_space < (allowed_space >> 4) || free_space < mss ||
--2.47.3