From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgg@nvidia.com,
jhubbard@nvidia.com, tjmercier@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
surenb@google.com, mkoutny@suse.com, daniel@ffwll.ch,
Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/19] mm: Introduce a cgroup for pinned memory
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:44:19 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9RFs+90TyzVMs83@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <183372b80aac73e640d9f5ac3c742d505fc6c1f2.1674538665.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 04:42:43PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> If too much memory in a system is pinned or locked it can lead to
> problems such as performance degredation or in the worst case
> out-of-memory errors as such memory cannot be moved or paged out.
>
> In order to prevent users without CAP_IPC_LOCK from causing these
> issues the amount of memory that can be pinned is typically limited by
> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. However this is inflexible as limits can't be shared
> between tasks and the enforcement of these limits is inconsistent
> between in-kernel users of pinned memory such as mlock() and device
> drivers which may also pin pages with pin_user_pages().
>
> To allow for a single limit to be set introduce a cgroup controller
> which can be used to limit the number of pages being pinned by all
> tasks in the cgroup.
The use case makes some sense to me but I wonder whether this'd fit a lot
better in memcg rather than being its own controller.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-24 5:42 [RFC PATCH 00/19] mm: Introduce a cgroup to limit the amount of locked and " Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 01/19] mm: Introduce vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 6:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-24 14:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 11:36 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-31 14:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 02/19] drivers/vhost: Convert to use vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-01-30 10:43 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 14:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 03/19] drivers/vdpa: Convert vdpa to use the new vm_structure Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 14:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 04/19] infiniband/umem: Convert to use vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 05/19] RMDA/siw: " Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 14:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-24 15:22 ` Bernard Metzler
2023-01-24 15:56 ` Bernard Metzler
2023-01-30 11:34 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-30 13:27 ` Bernard Metzler
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 06/19] RDMA/usnic: convert " Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 14:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 11:10 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 07/19] vfio/type1: Charge pinned pages to pinned_vm instead of locked_vm Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 08/19] vfio/spapr_tce: Convert accounting to pinned_vm Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 09/19] io_uring: convert to use vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 14:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 11:12 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-30 13:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 10/19] net: skb: Switch to using vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 14:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 11:17 ` Alistair Popple
2023-02-06 4:36 ` Alistair Popple
2023-02-06 13:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 11/19] xdp: convert to use vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 12/19] kvm/book3s_64_vio: Convert account_locked_vm() to vm_account_pinned() Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 13/19] fpga: dfl: afu: convert to use vm_account Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 14/19] mm: Introduce a cgroup for pinned memory Alistair Popple
2023-01-27 21:44 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2023-01-30 13:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 15/19] mm/util: Extend vm_account to charge pages against the pin cgroup Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 16/19] mm/util: Refactor account_locked_vm Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 17/19] mm: Convert mmap and mlock to use account_locked_vm Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 18/19] mm/mmap: Charge locked memory to pins cgroup Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 5:42 ` [RFC PATCH 19/19] selftests/vm: Add pins-cgroup selftest for mlock/mmap Alistair Popple
2023-01-24 18:26 ` [RFC PATCH 00/19] mm: Introduce a cgroup to limit the amount of locked and pinned memory Yosry Ahmed
2023-01-31 0:54 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-31 5:14 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-01-31 11:22 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-31 19:49 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-01-24 20:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-31 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-01-31 14:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-31 14:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-01-31 14:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-31 14:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-01-31 14:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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