Due to the semantics of memory.high enforcement i.e. throttle the workload without oom-kill, we are trying to use it for right sizing the workloads in our production environment. However we observed the mechanism fails for some specific applications which does big chunck of allocations in a single syscall. The reason behind this failure is due to the limitation of the memory.high enforcement's current implementation. This patch series solves this issue by enforcing the memory.high synchronously if the current process has accumulated a large amount of high overcharge. Changes since v1: - Based on Roman's comment simply the sync enforcement and only target the extreme cases. Shakeel Butt (4): memcg: refactor mem_cgroup_oom memcg: unify force charging conditions selftests: memcg: test high limit for single entry allocation memcg: synchronously enforce memory.high for large overcharges mm/memcontrol.c | 66 +++++++--------- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c | 15 +++- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.h | 1 + .../selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) -- 2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog