Re: Possible regression with cgroups in 3.11

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



[restoring CC list]

On Wed 13-11-13 17:29:15, Markus Blank-Burian wrote:
> >> I have compiled my kernel with CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP,
> >> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED, CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM and CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB
> >> options, although our machines have no active swap space at the
> >> moment.
> >
> > No swap means that no charges are done by a group non-member. So the
> > race Johannes was describing shouldn't be the problem in your case.
> >
> 
> Disabling CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM had no effect.
> 
> >> memory.use_hierarchy support is enabled and memory is limited from the
> >> job directory. I have mounted the cgroup to /var/slurm/cgroup/memory
> >> in addition to the normal directory at /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.
> >
> > How exactly have you mounted it there?
> 
> Mounted now at the correct position.
> 
> > Btw. how reproducible is this? Do you think you could try to bisect
> > it down? Reducing bisection to mm/ and kernel/ diretories should be
> > sufficient I guess.
> 
> I tried the one-liner from Johannes, but this also showed no effect.

There is one more issue which is discussed in another thread
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/15/31) and Tejun has posted a patch (and
Hugh followed up on it https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/17/166) to fix
the cgroup destruction path which may get stuck.

> Bisectioning is still on my todo list, as git does not stay on the
> aufs branch and i have to manually merge the aufs patch each step.


-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [eCos]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]     [Monitors]

  Powered by Linux