2017-11-18 0:45 GMT+08:00 Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:20:40AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: >> 2017-11-17 23:55 GMT+08:00 Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>: >> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:43:17PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Currently the default tmpfs size is totalram_pages / 2 if mount tmpfs >> >> > without "-o size=XXX". >> >> > When we mount tmpfs in a container(i.e. docker), it is also >> >> > totalram_pages / 2 regardless of the memory limit on this container. >> >> > That may easily cause OOM if tmpfs occupied too much memory when swap is >> >> > off. >> >> > So when we mount tmpfs in a memcg, the default size should be limited by >> >> > the memcg memory.limit. >> >> > >> >> >> >> The pages of the tmpfs files are charged to the memcg of allocators >> >> which can be in memcg different from the memcg in which the mount >> >> operation happened. So, tying the size of a tmpfs mount where it was >> >> mounted does not make much sense. >> > >> > Also, memory limit is adjustable, >> >> Yes. But that's irrelevant. >> >> > and using a particular limit value >> > at a moment of tmpfs mounting doesn't provide any warranties further. >> > >> >> I can not agree. >> The default size of tmpfs is totalram / 2, the reason we do this is to >> provide any warranties further IMHO. >> >> > Is there a reason why the userspace app which is mounting tmpfs can't >> > set the size based on memory.limit? >> >> That's because of misuse. >> The application should set size with "-o size=" when mount tmpfs, but >> not all applications do this. >> As we can't guarantee that all applications will do this, we should >> give them a proper default value. > > The value you're suggesting is proper only if an app which is mounting > tmpfs resides in the same memcg Yes. But maybe that's mostly used today? > and the memory limit will not be adjusted > significantly later. There's a similar issue for physical memory adjusted by memory hotplug. So what will happen if the physical memory adjusted significantly later ? > Otherwise you can end up with a default value, which > is worse than totalram/2, for instance, if tmpfs is mounted by some helper, > which is located in a separate and very limited memcg. That may happen. Maybe we could improve the solution to handle this issue ? Thanks Yafang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
