On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:41:23PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > When a cgroup currently breaches its socket memory limit, it enters > memory pressure mode for itself and its *ancestors*. This throttles > transmission in unrelated sibling and cousin subtrees that have > nothing to do with the breached limit. > > On the contrary, breaching a limit should make that group and its > *children* enter memory pressure mode. But this happens already, > albeit lazily: if an ancestor limit is breached, siblings will enter > memory pressure on their own once the next packet arrives for them.
Hmm, we still call sk_prot->enter_memory_pressure, which might hurt a workload in the root cgroup AFAICS. Strange. You fix it in patch 8 though. > > So no additional hierarchy code is needed. Remove the bogus stuff. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@virtuozzo.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
