Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:27:53 +0900 | From | Kamezawa Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: [patch 01/11] mm: memcg: fix compaction/migration failing due to memcg limits |
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(2012/07/05 9:44), Johannes Weiner wrote: > Compaction (and page migration in general) can currently be hindered > through pages being owned by memory cgroups that are at their limits > and unreclaimable. > > The reason is that the replacement page is being charged against the > limit while the page being replaced is also still charged. But this > seems unnecessary, given that only one of the two pages will still be > in use after migration finishes. > > This patch changes the memcg migration sequence so that the > replacement page is not charged. Whatever page is still in use after > successful or failed migration gets to keep the charge of the page > that was going to be replaced. > > Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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