Re: [PATCH v2] mm/memcontrol: Export memcg->watermark via sysfs for v2 memcg

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On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:09 PM Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We run a lot of automated tests when building our software and run into
> OOM scenarios when the tests run unbounded. v1 memcg exports
> memcg->watermark as "memory.max_usage_in_bytes" in sysfs. We use this
> metric to heuristically limit the number of tests that can run in
> parallel based on per test historical data.
>
> This metric is currently not exported for v2 memcg and there is no
> other easy way of getting this information. getrusage() syscall returns
> "ru_maxrss" which can be used as an approximation but that's the max
> RSS of a single child process across all children instead of the
> aggregated max for all child processes. The only work around is to
> periodically poll "memory.current" but that's not practical for
> short-lived one-off cgroups.
>
> Hence, expose memcg->watermark as "memory.peak" for v2 memcg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>



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