Re: [PATCH 3/8] net: consolidate memcg socket buffer tracking and accounting

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 09:46:12PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:21:31AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > The tcp memory controller has extensive provisions for future memory
> > accounting interfaces that won't materialize after all. Cut the code
> > base down to what's actually used, now and in the likely future.
> > 
> > - There won't be any different protocol counters in the future, so a
> >   direct sock->sk_memcg linkage is enough. This eliminates a lot of
> >   callback maze and boilerplate code, and restores most of the socket
> >   allocation code to pre-tcp_memcontrol state.
> > 
> > - There won't be a tcp control soft limit, so integrating the memcg
> 
> In fact, the code is ready for the "soft" limit (I mean min, pressure,
> max tuple), it just lacks a knob.

Yeah, but that's not going to materialize if the entire interface for
dedicated tcp throttling is considered obsolete.

> > @@ -1136,9 +1090,6 @@ static inline bool sk_under_memory_pressure(const struct sock *sk)
> >  	if (!sk->sk_prot->memory_pressure)
> >  		return false;
> >  
> > -	if (mem_cgroup_sockets_enabled && sk->sk_cgrp)
> > -		return !!sk->sk_cgrp->memory_pressure;
> > -
> 
> AFAIU, now we won't shrink the window on hitting the limit, i.e. this
> patch subtly changes the behavior of the existing knobs, potentially
> breaking them.

Hm, but there is no grace period in which something meaningful could
happen with the window shrinking, is there? Any buffer allocation is
still going to fail hard.

I don't see how this would change anything in practice.