On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 04/06/2018 05:37 PM, Shakeel Butt wrote: > >>> >>> @@ -2482,7 +2494,7 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, >>> static bool pgdat_memcg_congested(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memcg) >>> { >>> return test_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags) || >>> - (memcg && test_memcg_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, memcg)); >>> + (memcg && memcg_congested(pgdat, memcg)); >> >> I am wondering if we should check all ancestors for congestion as >> well. Maybe a parallel memcg reclaimer might have set some ancestor of >> this memcg to congested. >> > > Why? If ancestor is congested but its child (the one we currently reclaim) is not, > it could mean only 2 things: > - Either child use mostly anon and inactive file lru is small (file_lru >> priority == 0) > so it's not congested. > - Or the child was congested recently (at the time when ancestor scanned this group), > but not anymore. So the information from ancestor is simply outdated. > Oh yeah, you explained in the other email as well. Thanks. I think Andrew will squash this patch with the previous one. Andrew, please add following in the squashed patch. Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>