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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] memcg : remove -ENOMEM at page migration.
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:41:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1206291439080.11416@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEC308F.4020909@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:

> For handling many kinds of races, memcg adds an extra charge to
> page's memcg at page migration. But this affects the page compaction
> and make it fail if the memcg is under OOM.
> 
> This patch uses res_counter_charge_nofail() in page migration path
> and remove -ENOMEM. By this, page migration will not fail by the
> status of memcg.
> 
> Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

This is a very good improvement for page migration under memory compaction 
and increases the liklihood that it will do useful work for transparent 
hugepage allocations, thanks!

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-29 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-28 10:20 [RFC][PATCH 1/2] add res_counter_usage_safe Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-28 10:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] memcg : remove -ENOMEM at page migration Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-29 21:41   ` David Rientjes [this message]
2012-07-02 16:48   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-28 10:57 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] add res_counter_usage_safe Glauber Costa
2012-06-29  2:35   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-29 21:34 ` David Rientjes
2012-07-02 16:52 ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-04 13:19 ` Wanpeng Li

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