Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm/memcg: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes

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On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mem_cgroup_resize_[memsw]_limit() tries to free only 32 (SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
> pages on each iteration. This makes practically impossible to decrease
> limit of memory cgroup. Tasks could easily allocate back 32 pages,
> so we can't reduce memory usage, and once retry_count reaches zero we return
> -EBUSY.
>
> Easy to reproduce the problem by running the following commands:
>
>   mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
>   echo $$ >> /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/tasks
>   cat big_file > /dev/null &
>   sleep 1 && echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
>   -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
>
> Instead of relying on retry_count, keep retrying the reclaim until
> the desired limit is reached or fail if the reclaim doesn't make
> any progress or a signal is pending.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>

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