linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: reset low limit during memcg offlining

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:05:37 +0300
From:   Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, kernel-team@...com,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: reset low limit during memcg offlining

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:40:47PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> A removed memory cgroup with a defined low limit and some belonging
> pagecache has very low chances to be freed.
> 
> If a cgroup has been removed, there is likely no memory pressure inside
> the cgroup, and the pagecache is protected from the external pressure
> by the defined low limit. The cgroup will be freed only after
> the reclaim of all belonging pages. And it will not happen until
> there are any reclaimable memory in the system. That means,
> there is a good chance, that a cold pagecache will reside
> in the memory for an undefined amount of time, wasting
> system resources.
> 
> Fix this issue by zeroing memcg->low during memcg offlining.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
> Cc: kernel-team@...com
> Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index aed11b2d0251..2aa204b8f9fd 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4300,6 +4300,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock(&memcg->event_list_lock);
>  
> +	memcg->low = 0;
> +
>  	memcg_offline_kmem(memcg);
>  	wb_memcg_offline(memcg);
>  

We already have that - see mem_cgroup_css_reset().