From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net-memcg: pass in gfp_t mask to mem_cgroup_charge_skmem()
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:49:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221012204941.3223d205@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEA6p_CqqPtnWjr_yYr1oVF3UKe=6RqFLrg1OoANs2eg5_by0A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:34:00 -0700 Wei Wang wrote:
> > I pushed this little nugget to one affected machine via KLP:
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 03ffbb255e60..c1ca369a1b77 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -7121,6 +7121,10 @@ bool mem_cgroup_charge_skmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages,
> > return true;
> > }
> >
> > + if (gfp_mask == GFP_NOWAIT) {
> > + try_charge(memcg, gfp_mask|__GFP_NOFAIL, nr_pages);
> > + refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
> > + }
> > return false;
> > }
> >
> AFAICT, if you force charge by passing __GFP_NOFAIL to try_charge(),
> you should return true to tell the caller that the nr_pages is
> actually being charged.
Ack - not sure what the best thing to do is, tho. Always pass NOFAIL
in softirq?
It's not clear to me yet why doing the charge/uncharge actually helps,
perhaps try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() does more when NOFAIL is passed?
I'll do more digging tomorrow.
> Although I am not very sure what refill_stock() does. Does that
> "uncharge" those pages?
I think so, I copied it from mem_cgroup_uncharge_skmem().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-13 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 19:40 [PATCH net-next] net-memcg: pass in gfp_t mask to mem_cgroup_charge_skmem() Wei Wang
2021-08-18 10:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-10-12 23:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-13 0:17 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-10-13 0:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-13 0:54 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-10-13 1:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-13 3:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-13 3:34 ` Wei Wang
2022-10-13 3:49 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-10-13 4:04 ` Wei Wang
2022-10-13 4:18 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-10-13 21:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-13 22:02 ` Eric Dumazet
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