The patch titled memcg: change try_to_free_pages to hierarchical_reclaim has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-change-try_to_free_pages-to-hierarchical_reclaim.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memcg: change try_to_free_pages to hierarchical_reclaim From: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mem_cgroup_hierarchicl_reclaim() works properly even when !use_hierarchy now (by memcg-hierarchy-avoid-unnecessary-reclaim.patch), so, instead of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(), it should be used in many cases. The only exception is force_empty. The group has no children in this case. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-change-try_to_free_pages-to-hierarchical_reclaim mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-change-try_to_free_pages-to-hierarchical_reclaim +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1400,8 +1400,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_shrink_usage(struct mm_st rcu_read_unlock(); do { - progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem, gfp_mask, true, - get_swappiness(mem)); + progress = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(mem, gfp_mask, true); progress += mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(mem); } while (!progress && --retry); @@ -1468,10 +1467,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_limit(struc if (!ret) break; - progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, - GFP_KERNEL, - false, - get_swappiness(memcg)); + progress = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, + false); if (!progress) retry_count--; } @@ -1515,8 +1512,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_resize_memsw_limit(struct break; oldusage = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_USAGE); - try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, true, - get_swappiness(memcg)); + mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, true); curusage = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_USAGE); if (curusage >= oldusage) retry_count--; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are cgroups-make-cgroup-config-a-submenu.patch memcg-introduce-charge-commit-cancel-style-of-functions.patch memcg-introduce-charge-commit-cancel-style-of-functions-fix.patch memcg-fix-gfp_mask-of-callers-of-charge.patch memcg-simple-migration-handling.patch memcg-do-not-recalculate-section-unnecessarily-in-init_section_page_cgroup.patch memcg-move-all-acccounts-to-parent-at-rmdir.patch memcg-handle-swap-caches.patch memcg-memswap-controller-kconfig.patch memcg-swap-cgroup-for-remembering-usage.patch memcg-memswap-controller-core-make-resize-limit-hold-mutex.patch memcg-memswap-controller-core-swapcache-fixes.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchical-reclaim-v4-fix-for-hierarchical-reclaim.patch memcg-avoid-unnecessary-system-wide-oom-killer.patch memcg-avoid-unnecessary-system-wide-oom-killer-fix.patch memcg-fix-reclaim-result-checks.patch memcg-revert-gfp-mask-fix.patch memcg-check-group-leader-fix.patch memcg-memoryswap-controller-fix-limit-check.patch memcg-swapout-refcnt-fix.patch memcg-hierarchy-avoid-unnecessary-reclaim.patch inactive_anon_is_low-move-to-vmscan.patch mm-introduce-zone_reclaim-struct.patch mm-add-zone-nr_pages-helper-function.patch mm-make-get_scan_ratio-safe-for-memcg.patch memcg-add-null-check-to-page_cgroup_zoneinfo.patch memcg-add-inactive_anon_is_low.patch memcg-add-mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages.patch memcg-add-zone_reclaim_stat.patch memcg-remove-mem_cgroup_cal_reclaim.patch memcg-show-reclaim-stat.patch memcg-rename-scan-global-lru.patch memcg-protect-prev_priority.patch memcg-swappiness.patch memcg-explain-details-and-test-document.patch memcg-dont-trigger-oom-at-page-migration.patch memcg-remove-mem_cgroup_try_charge.patch memcg-avoid-dead-lock-caused-by-race-between-oom-and-cpuset_attach.patch memcg-change-try_to_free_pages-to-hierarchical_reclaim.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html