Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] misc_cgroup: add support for nofile limit

[brookxu <brookxu.cn@gmail.com>]

Tejun Heo wrote on 2021/7/28 12:32 上午:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:18:00AM +0800, brookxu wrote:
>> According to files_maxfiles_init(), we only allow about 10% of free memory to
>> create filps, and each filp occupies about 1K of cache. In this way, on a 16G
>> memory machine, the maximum usable filp is about 1,604,644. In general
>> scenarios, this may not be a big problem, but if the task is abnormal, it will
>> very likely become a bottleneck and affect other modules. 
> 
> Yeah but that can be configured trivially through sysfs. The reason why the
> default limit is lowered is because we wanna prevent a part of system to
> consume all the memory through fds. With cgroups, we already have that
> protection and at least some systems already configure file-max to maximum,
> so I don't see a point in adding another interface to subdivide the
> artificial limit.
> 

Yeah we can adjust file-max through sysctl, but in many cases we adjust it according
to the actual load of the machine, not for abnormal tasks. Another problem is that in
practical applications, kmem_limit will cause some minor problems. In many cases,
kmem_limit is disabled. Limit_in_bytes mainly counts user pages and pagecache, which
may cause files_cache to be out of control. In this case, if file-max is set to MAX,
we may have a risk in the abnormal scene, which prevents us from recovering from the
abnormal scene. Maybe I missed something.

> Thanks.
>