linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] cgroup-memcg fix frequent EBUSY at rmdir

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Message-ID: <6599ad830901131848gf7f6996iead1276bc50753b8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:48:43 -0800
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"lizf@...fujitsu.com" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] cgroup-memcg fix frequent EBUSY at rmdir

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:35 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> +       if (ret == -EAGAIN) { /* subsys asks us to retry later */
> +               mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
> +               cond_resched();
> +               goto retry;
> +       }

This spinning worries me a bit. It might be better to do an
interruptible sleep until the relevant CSS's refcount goes down to
zero. And is there no way that the memory controller can hang on to a
reference indefinitely, if the cgroup still has some pages charged to
it?

Paul
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