From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:58:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180115125824.GC22473@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17c368ce-3a20-d776-bc11-65b6a5bb1ff7@virtuozzo.com>
On Mon 15-01-18 15:53:35, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>
>
> On 01/15/2018 03:46 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 15-01-18 15:30:59, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/12/2018 03:24 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>> On Fri 12-01-18 00:59:38, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >>>> On 01/11/2018 07:29 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>>>> I do not think so. Consider that this reclaim races with other
> >>>>> reclaimers. Now you are reclaiming a large chunk so you might end up
> >>>>> reclaiming more than necessary. SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX would reduce the over
> >>>>> reclaim to be negligible.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I did consider this. And I think, I already explained that sort of race in previous email.
> >>>> Whether "Task B" is really a task in cgroup or it's actually a bunch of reclaimers,
> >>>> doesn't matter. That doesn't change anything.
> >>>
> >>> I would _really_ prefer two patches here. The first one removing the
> >>> hard coded reclaim count. That thing is just dubious at best. If you
> >>> _really_ think that the higher reclaim target is meaningfull then make
> >>> it a separate patch. I am not conviced but I will not nack it it either.
> >>> But it will make our life much easier if my over reclaim concern is
> >>> right and we will need to revert it. Conceptually those two changes are
> >>> independent anywa.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ok, fair point. But what about livelock than? Don't you think that we should
> >> go back to something like in V1 patch to prevent it?
> >
> > I am not sure what do you mean by the livelock here.
> >
>
> Livelock is when tasks in cgroup constantly allocate reclaimable memory at high rate,
> and user asked to set too low unreachable limit e.g. 'echo 4096 > memory.limit_in_bytes'.
OK, I wasn't sure. The reclaim target, however, doesn't have a direct
influence on this, though.
> We will loop indefinitely in mem_cgroup_resize_limit(), because try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() != 0
> (as long as cgroup tasks generate new reclaimable pages fast enough).
I do not thing this is a real problem. The context is interruptible and
I would even consider it safer to keep retrying than simply failing
prematurely. My experience tells me that basically any hard coded retry
loop in the kernel is wrong.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-20 10:24 [PATCH 1/2] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes Andrey Ryabinin
2017-12-20 10:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/memcg: Consolidate mem_cgroup_resize_[memsw]_limit() functions Andrey Ryabinin
2017-12-20 10:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes Michal Hocko
2017-12-20 11:32 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2017-12-20 11:34 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-20 18:15 ` Shakeel Butt
2017-12-21 10:00 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2017-12-20 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 " Andrey Ryabinin
2017-12-20 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/memcg: Consolidate mem_cgroup_resize_[memsw]_limit() functions Andrey Ryabinin
2017-12-20 13:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes Michal Hocko
2018-01-09 16:58 ` [PATCH v3 " Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-09 16:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/memcg: Consolidate mem_cgroup_resize_[memsw]_limit() functions Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-09 17:10 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-09 17:26 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-09 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2018-01-10 12:43 ` [PATCH v4] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-10 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2018-01-11 11:59 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-12 0:21 ` Andrew Morton
2018-01-12 9:08 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-11 10:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-11 12:21 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-11 12:46 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-11 15:23 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-11 16:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-11 21:59 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-12 12:24 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-12 22:57 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-15 12:29 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-15 17:04 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-15 12:30 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-15 12:46 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-15 12:53 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-15 12:58 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-01-09 17:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-09 17:22 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-19 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] mm/memcontrol.c: " Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-19 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] mm/memcontrol.c: Reduce reclaim retries in mem_cgroup_resize_limit() Andrey Ryabinin
2018-01-19 13:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-19 14:49 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-19 15:11 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-19 15:24 ` Shakeel Butt
2018-01-19 15:31 ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-21 20:17 ` Andrew Morton
2018-02-22 13:50 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-02-22 14:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-22 15:13 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-02-22 15:33 ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-22 15:38 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-02-22 15:44 ` Michal Hocko
2018-02-22 16:01 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-02-22 16:30 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-19 13:32 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] mm/memcontrol.c: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes Michal Hocko
2018-01-25 19:44 ` Andrey Ryabinin
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