From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: don't count limit-setting reclaim as memory pressure
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:03:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod6X1QNvxZB-5oUaY0CeZENz-K04bSnx95M4JpUcvKh0mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200728135210.379885-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:53 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
> When an outside process lowers one of the memory limits of a cgroup
> (or uses the force_empty knob in cgroup1), direct reclaim is performed
> in the context of the write(), in order to directly enforce the new
> limit and have it being met by the time the write() returns.
>
> Currently, this reclaim activity is accounted as memory pressure in
> the cgroup that the writer(!) belongs to. This is unexpected.
Indeed this is unexpected.
> It
> specifically causes problems for senpai
> (https://github.com/facebookincubator/senpai), which is an agent that
> routinely adjusts the memory limits and performs associated reclaim
> work in tens or even hundreds of cgroups running on the host. The
> cgroup that senpai is running in itself will report elevated levels of
> memory pressure, even though it itself is under no memory shortage or
> any sort of distress.
>
> Move the psi annotation from the central cgroup reclaim function to
> callsites in the allocation context, and thereby no longer count any
> limit-setting reclaim as memory pressure. If the newly set limit
> causes the workload inside the cgroup into direct reclaim, that of
> course will continue to count as memory pressure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-28 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 13:52 [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: don't count limit-setting reclaim as memory pressure Johannes Weiner
2020-07-28 15:03 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2020-07-28 18:53 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-07-28 19:44 ` Chris Down
2020-07-30 12:00 ` Michal Hocko
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