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| author | Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> | 2009-01-15 13:51:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-15 16:39:39 -0800 |
| commit | 4d1c627389c8ba6d9e703208567ffcdbd356f682 (patch) | |
| tree | 535720830c6f547e2d544d1dd02d23bae41da45e /mm/memcontrol.c | |
| parent | c268e9946d7dc30ac4e55cdc3f43c8af1ae8153c (diff) | |
| download | linux-4d1c627389c8ba6d9e703208567ffcdbd356f682.tar.bz2 | |
memcg: make oom less frequently
In previous implementation, mem_cgroup_try_charge checked the return
value of mem_cgroup_try_to_free_pages, and just retried if some pages
had been reclaimed.
But now, try_charge(and mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim called from it)
only checks whether the usage is less than the limit.
This patch tries to change the behavior as before to cause oom less
frequently.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 322625f551c2..fb62b4335fa9 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -773,10 +773,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem, * but there might be left over accounting, even after children * have left. */ - ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(root_mem, gfp_mask, noswap, + ret += try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(root_mem, gfp_mask, noswap, get_swappiness(root_mem)); if (mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(root_mem)) - return 0; + return 1; /* indicate reclaim has succeeded */ if (!root_mem->use_hierarchy) return ret; @@ -787,10 +787,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem, next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem); continue; } - ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(next_mem, gfp_mask, noswap, + ret += try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(next_mem, gfp_mask, noswap, get_swappiness(next_mem)); if (mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(root_mem)) - return 0; + return 1; /* indicate reclaim has succeeded */ next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem); } return ret; @@ -875,6 +875,8 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mm_struct *mm, ret = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, noswap); + if (ret) + continue; /* * try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() might not give us a full |