On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:29:27PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:52:50PM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote: > > In this condition, if res usage is at limit then there's no point in > > swapping because memsw.usage is already maximal. Prior to this patch > > I think the kernel did the right thing, but not afterwards. > > > > Before this patch: > > if res.usage == res.limit, try_charge() indirectly calls > > try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(noswap=true) > > But this is wrong. If we fail to charge res, we should try to do swap > out along with page cache reclaim. Swap out won't affect memsw.usage, > but will diminish res.usage so that the allocation may succeed.
Oops, I missed your point, sorry. If we hit the res.limit and memsw.limit=res.limit, we automatically hit memsw.limit too, so there's no point swapping out. Thanks, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
