From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx152.postini.com [74.125.245.152]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68E176B005A for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:42:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:42:40 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed. Message-ID: <20120810154240.GG1425@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1344517279-30646-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1344517279-30646-3-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1344517279-30646-3-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , Suleiman Souhlal On Thu 09-08-12 17:01:10, Glauber Costa wrote: [...] > @@ -2317,18 +2318,18 @@ 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; This is dangerous because THP charges will be retried now while they previously failed with CHARGE_NOMEM which means that we will keep attempting potentially endlessly. Why cannot we simply do if (nr_pages < CHARGE_BATCH) and get rid of the min_pages altogether? Also the comment doesn't seem to be valid anymore. > > 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; > @@ -2341,7 +2342,7 @@ 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; > > /* > @@ -2476,7 +2477,8 @@ 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; > -- > 1.7.11.2 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org