Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] memcg: Enable fine-grained per process memory control

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 18-08-20 11:59:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:26:17AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 18-08-20 11:14:53, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:08:23AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > > Memory controller can be used to control and limit the amount of
> > > > physical memory used by a task. When a limit is set in "memory.high" in
> > > > a v2 non-root memory cgroup, the memory controller will try to reclaim
> > > > memory if the limit has been exceeded. Normally, that will be enough
> > > > to keep the physical memory consumption of tasks in the memory cgroup
> > > > to be around or below the "memory.high" limit.
> > > > 
> > > > Sometimes, memory reclaim may not be able to recover memory in a rate
> > > > that can catch up to the physical memory allocation rate. In this case,
> > > > the physical memory consumption will keep on increasing. 
> > > 
> > > Then slow down the allocator? That's what we do for dirty pages too, we
> > > slow down the dirtier when we run against the limits.
> > 
> > This is what we actually do. Have a look at mem_cgroup_handle_over_high.
> 
> But then how can it run-away like Waiman suggested?

As Chris mentioned in other reply. This functionality is quite new.
 
> /me goes look... and finds MEMCG_MAX_HIGH_DELAY_JIFFIES.

We can certainly tune a different backoff delays but I suspect this is
not the problem here.
 
> That's a fail... :-(

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs