* [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes
@ 2020-07-28 13:52 Johannes Weiner
2020-07-28 14:07 ` Chris Down
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From: Johannes Weiner @ 2020-07-28 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel-team
Commit 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new
memory.high") inadvertently removed a callback to recalculate the
writeback cache size in light of a newly configured memory.high limit.
Without letting the writeback cache know about a potentially heavily
reduced limit, it may permit too many dirty pages, which can cause
unnecessary reclaim latencies or even avoidable OOM situations.
This was spotted while reading the code, it hasn't knowingly caused
any problems in practice so far.
Fixes: 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 13f559af1ab6..805a44bf948c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6071,6 +6071,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
break;
}
+ memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
return nbytes;
}
--
2.27.0
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* Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes
2020-07-28 13:52 [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes Johannes Weiner
@ 2020-07-28 14:07 ` Chris Down
2020-07-28 15:07 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-07-31 8:18 ` Michal Hocko
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chris Down @ 2020-07-28 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Andrew Morton, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, linux-mm, cgroups,
linux-kernel, kernel-team
Johannes Weiner writes:
>Commit 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new
>memory.high") inadvertently removed a callback to recalculate the
>writeback cache size in light of a newly configured memory.high limit.
>
>Without letting the writeback cache know about a potentially heavily
>reduced limit, it may permit too many dirty pages, which can cause
>unnecessary reclaim latencies or even avoidable OOM situations.
>
>This was spotted while reading the code, it hasn't knowingly caused
>any problems in practice so far.
>
>Fixes: 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high")
>Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
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* Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes
2020-07-28 13:52 [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes Johannes Weiner
2020-07-28 14:07 ` Chris Down
@ 2020-07-28 15:07 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-07-31 8:18 ` Michal Hocko
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2020-07-28 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Andrew Morton, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Linux MM, Cgroups,
LKML, Kernel Team
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:53 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
> Commit 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new
> memory.high") inadvertently removed a callback to recalculate the
> writeback cache size in light of a newly configured memory.high limit.
>
> Without letting the writeback cache know about a potentially heavily
> reduced limit, it may permit too many dirty pages, which can cause
> unnecessary reclaim latencies or even avoidable OOM situations.
>
> This was spotted while reading the code, it hasn't knowingly caused
> any problems in practice so far.
>
> Fixes: 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
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* Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes
2020-07-28 13:52 [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes Johannes Weiner
2020-07-28 14:07 ` Chris Down
2020-07-28 15:07 ` Shakeel Butt
@ 2020-07-31 8:18 ` Michal Hocko
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2020-07-31 8:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Andrew Morton, Roman Gushchin, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel-team
On Tue 28-07-20 09:52:09, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Commit 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new
> memory.high") inadvertently removed a callback to recalculate the
> writeback cache size in light of a newly configured memory.high limit.
>
> Without letting the writeback cache know about a potentially heavily
> reduced limit, it may permit too many dirty pages, which can cause
> unnecessary reclaim latencies or even avoidable OOM situations.
>
> This was spotted while reading the code, it hasn't knowingly caused
> any problems in practice so far.
>
> Fixes: 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 13f559af1ab6..805a44bf948c 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -6071,6 +6071,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
> break;
> }
>
> + memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
> return nbytes;
> }
>
> --
> 2.27.0
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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