Shakeel Butt writes:
Sometimes, memory reclaim may not be able to recover memory in a rate
that can catch up to the physical memory allocation rate especially
when rotating disks are used for swapping or writing dirty pages. In
this case, the physical memory consumption will keep on increasing.
Isn't this the real underlying issue? Why not make the guarantees of
memory.high more strict instead of adding more interfaces and
complexity?
Oh, thanks Shakeel for bringing this up. I missed this in the original
changelog and I'm surprised that it's mentioned, since we do have protections
against that.
Waiman, we already added artificial throttling if memory reclaim is not
sufficiently achieved in 0e4b01df8659 ("mm, memcg: throttle allocators when
failing reclaim over memory.high"), which has been present since v5.4. This
should significantly inhibit physical memory consumption from increasing. What
problems are you having with that? :-)
