From: "Julius Hemanth Pitti (jpitti)" <jpitti@cisco.com>
To: "guro@fb.com" <guro@fb.com>
Cc: "vdavydov.dev@gmail.com" <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: yield cpu when we fail to charge pages
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 19:28:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38c678cac5794cb647ba73799bcaf6df5ff6dc3e.camel@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200908192159.GB567128@carbon.DHCP.thefacebook.com>
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 12:21 -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 11:50:51AM -0700, Julius Hemanth Pitti wrote:
> > For non root CG, in try_charge(), we keep trying
> > to charge until we succeed. On non-preemptive
> > kernel, when we are OOM, this results in holding
> > CPU forever.
> >
> > On SMP systems, this doesn't create a big problem
> > because oom_reaper get a change to kill victim
> > and make some free pages. However on a single-core
> > CPU (or cases where oom_reaper pinned to same CPU
> > where try_charge is executing), oom_reaper shall
> > never get scheduled and we stay in try_charge forever.
> >
> > Steps to repo this on non-smp:
> > 1. mount -t tmpfs none /sys/fs/cgroup
> > 2. mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
> > 3. mount -t cgroup none /sys/fs/cgroup/memory -o memory
> > 4. mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0
> > 5. echo 40M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
> > 6. echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/tasks
> > 7. stress -m 5 --vm-bytes 10M --vm-hang 0
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julius Hemanth Pitti <jpitti@cisco.com>
> > ---
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 0d6f3ea86738..4620d70267cb 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -2652,6 +2652,8 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup
> > *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> > if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> > goto force;
> >
> > + cond_resched();
> > +
>
> Can you, please, add a short comment here?
> Something like "give oom_reaper a chance on a non-SMP system"?
Sure.
>
> > /*
> > * keep retrying as long as the memcg oom killer is able to
> > make
> > * a forward progress or bypass the charge if the oom killer
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
>
> The patch makes total sense to me. Please, feel free to add
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> after adding a comment.
Thanks, I shall add.
>
> Thank you!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-08 18:50 [PATCH] mm: memcg: yield cpu when we fail to charge pages Julius Hemanth Pitti
2020-09-08 19:21 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-08 19:28 ` Julius Hemanth Pitti (jpitti) [this message]
2020-09-14 4:15 ` Xunlei Pang
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