The patch titled Subject: mm, memcg: unify reclaim retry limits with page allocator has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-memcg-unify-reclaim-retry-limits-with-page-allocator.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, memcg: unify reclaim retry limits with page allocator Reclaim retries have been set to 5 since the beginning of time in commit 66e1707bc346 ("Memory controller: add per cgroup LRU and reclaim"). However, we now have a generally agreed-upon standard for page reclaim: MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES (currently 16), added many years later in commit 0a0337e0d1d1 ("mm, oom: rework oom detection"). In the absence of a compelling reason to declare an OOM earlier in memcg context than page allocator context, it seems reasonable to supplant MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES with MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES, making the page allocator and memcg internals more similar in semantics when reclaim fails to produce results, avoiding premature OOMs or throttling. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da557856c9c7654308eaff4eedc1952a95e8df5f.1594640214.git.chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-unify-reclaim-retry-limits-with-page-allocator +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memory_cgrp_subsys); struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup __read_mostly; -/* The number of times we should retry reclaim failures before giving up. */ -#define MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES 5 - /* Socket memory accounting disabled? */ static bool cgroup_memory_nosocket; @@ -2538,7 +2535,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(void) unsigned long pflags; unsigned long nr_reclaimed; unsigned int nr_pages = current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high; - int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; struct mem_cgroup *memcg; bool in_retry = false; @@ -2615,7 +2612,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup unsigned int nr_pages) { unsigned int batch = max(MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH, nr_pages); - int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit; struct page_counter *counter; unsigned long nr_reclaimed; @@ -2734,7 +2731,7 @@ retry: get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE)); switch (oom_status) { case OOM_SUCCESS: - nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; goto retry; case OOM_FAILED: goto force; @@ -3414,7 +3411,7 @@ static inline bool memcg_has_children(st */ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { - int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; /* we call try-to-free pages for make this cgroup empty */ lru_add_drain_all(); @@ -6235,7 +6232,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of)); - unsigned int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + unsigned int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; bool drained = false; unsigned long high; int err; @@ -6283,7 +6280,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct k char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of)); - unsigned int nr_reclaims = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + unsigned int nr_reclaims = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; bool drained = false; unsigned long max; int err; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are