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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: drain memcg stocks on css offlining
On Tue 14-08-18 17:36:20, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Memcg charge is batched using per-cpu stocks, so an offline memcg
> can be pinned by a cached charge up to a moment, when a process
> belonging to some other cgroup will charge some memory on the same
> cpu. In other words, cached charges can prevent a memory cgroup
> from being reclaimed for some time, without any clear need.
>
> Let's optimize it by explicit draining of all stocks on css offlining.
> As draining is performed asynchronously, and is skipped if any
> parallel draining is happening, it's cheap.

Yes this makes sense.

> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 4e3c1315b1de..cfb64b5b9957 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4575,6 +4575,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
> memcg_offline_kmem(memcg);
> wb_memcg_offline(memcg);
>
> + drain_all_stock(memcg);
> +
> mem_cgroup_id_put(memcg);
> }
>
> --
> 2.14.4

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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