Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:02:26 +0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v13 00/16] kmemcg shrinkers | From | Glauber Costa <> |
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> Please note that in contrast to previous versions this patch-set implements > slab shrinking only when we hit the user memory limit so that kmem allocations > will still fail if we are below the user memory limit, but close to the kmem > limit. This is, because the implementation of kmem-only reclaim was rather > incomplete - we had to fail GFP_NOFS allocations since everything we could > reclaim was only FS data. I will try to improve this and send in a separate > patch-set, but currently it is only worthwhile setting the kmem limit to be > greater than the user mem limit just to enable per-memcg slab accounting and > reclaim.
That is unfortunate, but it makes sense as a first step.
-- E Mare, Libertas
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