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[PATCH 05/23] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed. [message #45994 is a reply to message #45989] Fri, 20 April 2012 21:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>

mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before slab accounting, and expects
three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 pages,
or being called for a hugepage. If we call for 2 pages (and several slabs
used in process creation are such, at least with the debug options I had),
it assumed it's being called for stock and just retried without reclaiming.

Fix that by passing down a minsize argument in addition to the csize.

And what to do about that (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) retry? If it's
needed at all (and presumably is since it's there, perhaps to handle
races), then it should be extended to more than PAGE_SIZE, yet how far?
And should there be a retry count limit, of what? For now retry up to
COSTLY_ORDER (as page_alloc.c does), stay safe with a cond_resched(),
and make sure not to do it if __GFP_NORETRY.

Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4b94b2d..cbffc4c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2187,7 +2187,8 @@ enum {
};

static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
- unsigned int nr_pages, bool oom_check)
+ unsigned int nr_pages, unsigned int min_pages,
+ bool oom_check)
{
unsigned long csize = nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
@@ -2210,18 +2211,18 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
} else
mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_res_counter(fail_res, res);
/*
- * nr_pages can be either a huge page (HPAGE_PMD_NR), a batch
- * of regular pages (CHARGE_BATCH), or a single regular page (1).
- *
* Never reclaim on behalf of optional batching, retry with a
* single page instead.
*/
- if (nr_pages == CHARGE_BATCH)
+ if (nr_pages > min_pages)
return CHARGE_RETRY;

if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
return CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK;

+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)
+ return CHARGE_NOMEM;
+
ret = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags);
if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages)
return CHARGE_RETRY;
@@ -2234,8 +2235,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
* unlikely to succeed so close to the limit, and we fall back
* to regular pages anyway in case of failure.
*/
- if (nr_pages == 1 && ret)
+ if (nr_pages <= (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) && ret) {
+ cond_resched();
return CHARGE_RETRY;
+ }

/*
* At task move, charge accounts can be doubly counted. So, it's
@@ -2369,7 +2372,8 @@ again:
nr_oom_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
}

- ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, oom_check);
+ ret = mem_cgroup_do_charge(memcg, gfp_mask, batch, nr_pages,
+ oom_check);
switch (ret) {
case CHARGE_OK:
break;
--
1.7.7.6
 
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