Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm: memcg discount pages under softlimit from per-zone reclaimable_pages

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(2012/06/07 3:24), Ying Han wrote:
> The function zone_reclaimable() marks zone->all_unreclaimable based on
> per-zone pages_scanned and reclaimable_pages. If all_unreclaimable is true,
> alloc_pages could go to OOM instead of getting stuck in page reclaim.
> 
> In memcg kernel, cgroup under its softlimit is not targeted under global
> reclaim. So we need to remove those pages from reclaimable_pages, otherwise
> it will cause reclaim mechanism to get stuck trying to reclaim from
> all_unreclaimable zone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ying Han<yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   mm/vmscan.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>   1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 65febc1..163b197 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -3142,14 +3142,26 @@ unsigned long global_reclaimable_pages(void)
> 
>   unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
>   {
> -	int nr;
> +	int nr = 0;
> +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> 
> -	nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> -	     zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> +	memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
> +	do {
> +		struct mem_cgroup_zone mz = {
> +			.mem_cgroup = memcg,
> +			.zone = zone,
> +		};
> 
> -	if (nr_swap_pages>  0)
> -		nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
> -		      zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
> +		if (should_reclaim_mem_cgroup(memcg)) {
> +			nr += zone_nr_lru_pages(&mz, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) +
> +			      zone_nr_lru_pages(&mz, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
> +
> +			if (nr_swap_pages>  0)
> +				nr += zone_nr_lru_pages(&mz, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
> +				      zone_nr_lru_pages(&mz, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
> +		}
> +		memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL);
> +	} while (memcg);
> 

Shouldn't you handle 'ignore_softlimit' case ?
Anyway, Kosaki-san is now trying to modify zone->all_unreclaimable etc..
we need to check it with softlimit context.

Thanks,
-Kame


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