From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
shakeel.butt@linux.dev, muchun.song@linux.dev,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] memcg: add nomlock to avoid folios beling mlocked in a memcg
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 09:39:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z3zoW2J7agTEB0BV@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALOAHbA+_jPqqMvzppwu1ffmQwA7ZofzrnhTewKK4C_3Dwoj6Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon 06-01-25 22:04:31, Yafang Shao wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed 25-12-24 10:23:53, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > [...]
> > > - Option C: Reparent the mlocked page to a common ancestor
> > >
> > > Consider the following hierarchical:
> > >
> > > A
> > > / \
> > > B C
> > >
> > > If B is mlocking a page in C, we can reparent that mlocked page to A,
> > > essentially making A the new parent for the mlocked page.
> >
> > How does this solve the underlying problem?
>
> No OOM will occur in C until the limit of A is reached, and an OOM at
> that point is the expected behavior.
Right but if A happens to be the root cgroup then you effectivelly
allows mlock to run away a local limit.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-07 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-15 7:34 Yafang Shao
2024-12-15 7:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm/memcontrol: add a new cgroup file memory.nomlock Yafang Shao
2024-12-15 7:34 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: Add support for nomlock to avoid folios beling mlocked in a memcg Yafang Shao
2024-12-20 10:23 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] memcg: add " Michal Hocko
2024-12-20 11:52 ` Yafang Shao
2024-12-21 7:21 ` Michal Hocko
2024-12-22 2:34 ` Yafang Shao
2024-12-25 2:23 ` Yafang Shao
2025-01-06 12:30 ` Michal Hocko
2025-01-06 14:04 ` Yafang Shao
2025-01-07 8:39 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2025-01-07 9:43 ` Yafang Shao
2025-01-06 12:28 ` Michal Hocko
2025-01-06 13:59 ` Yafang Shao
2025-01-07 10:04 ` Michal Hocko
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