linux-kernel - [PATCH] memcg: remove congestion wait when force empty

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Date:   Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:19:20 +0800
From:   Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...nel.org, vdavydov.dev@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: remove congestion wait when force empty

memory.force_empty is used to empty a memory cgoup memory before
rmdir it, avoid to charge those memory into parent cgroup

when try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages returns 0, guess there maybe be
lots of writeback, so wait. but the waiting and sleep will called
in shrink_inactive_list, based on numbers of isolated page, so
remove this wait to reduce unnecessary delay

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4ead5a4817de..35bd43eaa97e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2897,12 +2897,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 
 		progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, 1,
 							GFP_KERNEL, true);
-		if (!progress) {
+		if (!progress)
 			nr_retries--;
-			/* maybe some writeback is necessary */
-			congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
-		}
-
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.16.2