Re: [PATCH] cgroup: wait for css offline when rmdir

From: Hongchen Zhang
Date: Sun May 29 2022 - 21:54:00 EST


On 2022/5/27 下午4:48, Tejun Heo wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:39:18AM +0800, Hongchen Zhang wrote:
when remove a cgroup dir, make sure all the csses associated which
the cgroup are all offlined,so that we will be sure that the resources
allocated by the csses are all freed when rmdir exit successfully.

Offlining doesn't guarantee that resources are freed and there's no definite
time limit on how long it'd take to free all resources. e.g. for memcg, if
there isn't sufficient memory pressure, its page cache can remain
indefinitely. Is there something practical you're trying to achieve?

Thanks.

Hi Tejun,
When I test the LTP's memcg_test_3 testcase at 8 Node server,I get the -ENOMEM error,which caused by no avaliable idr found in mem_cgroup_idr.
the reason is the use of idr in mem_cgroup_idr is too fast than the free.In the specific case,the idr is used and freed cyclically,so when we rmdir one cgroup dir, we can synchronize the idr free through wating for the memcg css offlined,and then we can use it the next cycle.

Thanks.