Hi, Tejun reported that sometimes memcg/memory.high threshold seems to be silently ignored if kmem accounting is enabled: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg93613.html It turned out that both SLAB and SLUB try to allocate without __GFP_WAIT first. As a result, if there is enough free pages, memcg reclaim will not get invoked on kmem allocations, which will lead to uncontrollable growth of memory usage no matter what memory.high is set to. This patch set attempts to fix this issue. For more details please see comments to individual patches. Thanks, Vladimir Davydov (2): mm/slab: skip memcg reclaim only if in atomic context mm/slub: do not bypass memcg reclaim for high-order page allocation mm/slab.c | 32 +++++++++++--------------------- mm/slub.c | 24 +++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 -- 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>