From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx180.postini.com [74.125.245.180]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E95256B005A for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:50:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FEB715C.3090102@parallels.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:47:24 +0400 From: Glauber Costa MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed. References: <1340633728-12785-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1340633728-12785-3-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <4FEADA55.4060409@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Pekka Enberg , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Christoph Lameter , devel@openvz.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Tejun Heo , Suleiman Souhlal On 06/27/2012 11:48 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > >>> @@ -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; >> >> Changed to costly order. >> > > 1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER was the suggestion. That is what I meant - to the costly order suggestion - , should have been more explicit. >> One more thing. The original version of this patch included >> a cond_resched() here, that was also removed. From my re-reading >> of the code in page_alloc.c and vmscan.c now, I tend to think >> this is indeed not needed, since any cond_resched()s that might >> be needed to ensure the safety of the code will be properly >> inserted by the reclaim code itself, so there is no need for us >> to include any when we signal that a retry is needed. >> > > For __GFP_WAIT, that sounds like a safe guarantee. > -- 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