Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2025-10-15

Re: [PATCH v5] memcg: expose socket memory pressure in a cgroup

From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Date: 2025-10-15 18:21:33
Also in: cgroups, linux-mm

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

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 ||
--
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