From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx138.postini.com [74.125.245.138]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15FFA6B002B for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:23:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (unknown [10.0.50.73]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595943EE0BD for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:23:31 +0900 (JST) Received: from smail (m3 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F51245DEBA for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:23:31 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.93]) by m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2651545DEB6 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:23:31 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17ABE1DB803F for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:23:31 +0900 (JST) Received: from ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com (ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.240.81.134]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21CB1DB8038 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:23:30 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <507CD2FA.8000009@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:22:34 +0900 From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/14] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed. References: <1349690780-15988-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1349690780-15988-3-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: <1349690780-15988-3-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Suleiman Souhlal , Tejun Heo , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Greg Thelen , devel@openvz.org, Frederic Weisbecker (2012/10/08 19:06), Glauber Costa wrote: > From: Suleiman Souhlal > > mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before kmem 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 > both the stack 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) 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 > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa > Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki > Acked-by: Michal Hocko > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki -- 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