Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: restore proper dirty throttling when memory.high changes

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 28-07-20 09:52:09, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Commit 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new
> memory.high") inadvertently removed a callback to recalculate the
> writeback cache size in light of a newly configured memory.high limit.
> 
> Without letting the writeback cache know about a potentially heavily
> reduced limit, it may permit too many dirty pages, which can cause
> unnecessary reclaim latencies or even avoidable OOM situations.
> 
> This was spotted while reading the code, it hasn't knowingly caused
> any problems in practice so far.
> 
> Fixes: 8c8c383c04f6 ("mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 13f559af1ab6..805a44bf948c 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -6071,6 +6071,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
>  			break;
>  	}
>  
> +	memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
>  	return nbytes;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.27.0

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs