On Mon 16-06-14 15:54:24, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> There is no reason why oom-disabled and __GFP_NOFAIL charges should
> try to reclaim only once when every other charge tries several times
> before giving up.  Make them all retry the same number of times.

OK, this makes sense for oom-disabled and __GFP_NOFAIL but does it make
sense to do additional reclaim for tasks with fatal_signal_pending?

It is little bit unexpected, because we bypass if the condition happens
before the reclaim but then we ignore it.

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index e946f7439b16..52550bbff1ef 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2566,7 +2566,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mem_cgroup 
> *memcg,
>                                bool oom)
>  {
>       unsigned int batch = max(CHARGE_BATCH, nr_pages);
> -     int nr_oom_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
> +     int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
>       struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
>       struct res_counter *fail_res;
>       unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
> @@ -2638,6 +2638,9 @@ retry:
>       if (mem_cgroup_wait_acct_move(mem_over_limit))
>               goto retry;
>  
> +     if (nr_retries--)
> +             goto retry;
> +
>       if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
>               goto bypass;
>  
> @@ -2647,9 +2650,6 @@ retry:
>       if (!oom)
>               goto nomem;
>  
> -     if (nr_oom_retries--)
> -             goto retry;
> -
>       mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(batch));
>  nomem:
>       if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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