The patch titled Subject: mm, memcg: bypass high reclaim iteration for cgroup hierarchy root has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcg-bypass-high-reclaim-iteration-for-cgroup-hierarchy-root.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcg-bypass-high-reclaim-iteration-for-cgroup-hierarchy-root.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcg-bypass-high-reclaim-iteration-for-cgroup-hierarchy-root.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, memcg: bypass high reclaim iteration for cgroup hierarchy root The root of the hierarchy cannot have high set, so we will never reclaim based on it. This makes that clearer and avoids another entry. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312164137.GA1753625@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-bypass-high-reclaim-iteration-for-cgroup-hierarchy-root +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2246,7 +2246,8 @@ static void reclaim_high(struct mem_cgro continue; memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_HIGH); try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask, true); - } while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))); + } while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) && + !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)); } static void high_work_func(struct work_struct *work) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memcg-fix-corruption-on-64-bit-divisor-in-memoryhigh-throttling.patch mm-memcg-throttle-allocators-based-on-ancestral-memoryhigh.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memoryhigh-load-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memorymax-load-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memorylow-load-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memorymin-load-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-memoryswapmax-load-tearing.patch mm-memcg-prevent-mem_cgroup_protected-store-tearing.patch mm-memcg-bypass-high-reclaim-iteration-for-cgroup-hierarchy-root.patch