Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:26:14 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: have kswapd only reclaiming use min protection on memcg |
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On Wed 27-10-21 15:46:19, Zhaoyang Huang wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 3:20 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed 27-10-21 15:01:50, Huangzhaoyang wrote: > > > From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com> > > > > > > For the kswapd only reclaiming, there is no chance to try again on > > > this group while direct reclaim has. fix it by judging gfp flag. > > > > There is no problem description (same as in your last submissions. Have > > you looked at the patch submission documentation as recommended > > previously?). > > > > Also this patch doesn't make any sense. Both direct reclaim and kswapd > > use a gfp mask which contains __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (see balance_pgdat > > for the kswapd part).. > ok, but how does the reclaiming try with memcg's min protection on the > alloc without __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM?
I do not follow. There is no need to protect memcg if the allocation request doesn't have __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM because that would fail the charge if a hard limit is reached, see try_charge_memcg and gfpflags_allow_blocking check.
Background reclaim, on the other hand never breaches reclaim protection.
What is the actual problem you want to solve?
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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