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Message-ID: <c3110f12-5d9f-4907-a712-5a1004ec4fdc@bytedance.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:23:49 +0800
From: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@...edance.com>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "David S . Miller"
<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] sock: Fix improper heuristic on
raising memory
On 10/19/23 4:53 PM, Paolo Abeni Wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-16 at 21:28 +0800, Abel Wu wrote:
>> Before sockets became aware of net-memcg's memory pressure since
>> commit e1aab161e013 ("socket: initial cgroup code."), the memory
>> usage would be granted to raise if below average even when under
>> protocol's pressure. This provides fairness among the sockets of
>> same protocol.
>>
>> That commit changes this because the heuristic will also be
>> effective when only memcg is under pressure which makes no sense.
>> Fix this by reverting to the behavior before that commit.
>>
>> After this fix, __sk_mem_raise_allocated() no longer considers
>> memcg's pressure. As memcgs are isolated from each other w.r.t.
>> memory accounting, consuming one's budget won't affect others.
>> So except the places where buffer sizes are needed to be tuned,
>> allow workloads to use the memory they are provisioned.
>>
>> Fixes: e1aab161e013 ("socket: initial cgroup code.")
>
> I think it's better to drop this fixes tag. This is a functional change
> and with such tag on at this point of the cycle, will land soon into
> every stable tree. That feels not appropriate.
>
> Please repost without such tag, thanks!
>
> You can send the change to stables trees later, if needed.
OK. Shall I add a Acked-by tag for you?
Thanks!
Abel
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