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mm, memcg: do not high throttle allocators based on wraparound
If a cgroup violates its memory.high constraints, we may end up unduly penalising it. For example, for the following hierarchy: A: max high, 20 usage A/B: 9 high, 10 usage A/C: max high, 10 usage We would end up doing the following calculation below when calculating high delay for A/B: A/B: 10 - 9 = 1... A: 20 - PAGE_COUNTER_MAX = 21, so set max_overage to 21. This gets worse with higher disparities in usage in the parent. I have no idea how this disappeared from the final version of the patch, but it is certainly Not Good(tm). This wasn't obvious in testing because, for a simple cgroup hierarchy with only one child, the result is usually roughly the same. It's only in more complex hierarchies that things go really awry (although still, the effects are limited to a maximum of 2 seconds in schedule_timeout_killable at a maximum). [[email protected]: changelog] Fixes: e26733e ("mm, memcg: throttle allocators based on ancestral memory.high") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chris Down <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> [5.4.x] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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