Re: [PATCH] memcg: effective memory.high reclaim for remote charging

[Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>]

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:47 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu 07-05-20 09:33:01, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> [...]
> > @@ -2600,8 +2596,23 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >                               schedule_work(&memcg->high_work);
> >                               break;
> >                       }
> > -                     current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += batch;
> > -                     set_notify_resume(current);
> > +
> > +                     if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask))
> > +                             reclaim_over_high(memcg, gfp_mask, batch);
> > +
> > +                     if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) <=
> > +                         READ_ONCE(memcg->high))
> > +                             break;
>
> I am half way to a long weekend so bear with me. Shouldn't this be continue? The
> parent memcg might be still in excess even the child got reclaimed,
> right?
>

The reclaim_high() actually already does this walk up to the root and
reclaim from ones who are still over their high limit. Though having
'continue' here is correct too.

> > +                     /*
> > +                      * The above reclaim might not be able to do much. Punt
> > +                      * the high reclaim to return to userland if the current
> > +                      * task shares the hierarchy.
> > +                      */
> > +                     if (current->mm && mm_match_cgroup(current->mm, memcg)) {
> > +                             current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += batch;
> > +                             set_notify_resume(current);
> > +                     } else
> > +                             schedule_work(&memcg->high_work);
> >                       break;
> >               }
> >       } while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)));
> > --
> > 2.26.2.526.g744177e7f7-goog
> >
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs