The patch titled
Subject: mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-memcontrol-restore-proper-dirty-throttling-when-memoryhigh-changes.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-restore-proper-dirty-throttling-when-memoryhigh-changes.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-restore-proper-dirty-throttling-when-memoryhigh-changes.patch
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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes
Commit 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new
memory.high") inadvertently removed a callback to recalculate the
writeback cache size in light of a newly configured memory.high limit.
Without letting the writeback cache know about a potentially heavily
reduced limit, it may permit too many dirty pages, which can cause
unnecessary reclaim latencies or even avoidable OOM situations.
This was spotted while reading the code, it hasn't knowingly caused any
problems in practice so far.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200728135210.379885-1-hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-restore-proper-dirty-throttling-when-memoryhigh-changes
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6283,6 +6283,8 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct
page_counter_set_high(&memcg->memory, high);
+ memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
+
return nbytes;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-memcontrol-decouple-reference-counting-from-page-accounting.patch
mm-memcontrol-restore-proper-dirty-throttling-when-memoryhigh-changes.patch
mm-memcontrol-dont-count-limit-setting-reclaim-as-memory-pressure.patch
