Re: [PATCH resend] memcg: introduce per-memcg reclaim interface

[Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>]

Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> writes:
> From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
>
> Introduce an memcg interface to trigger memory reclaim on a memory cgroup.
<snip>

> +
> +	while (nr_reclaimed < nr_to_reclaim) {
> +		unsigned long reclaimed;
> +
> +		if (signal_pending(current))
> +			break;
> +
> +		reclaimed = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg,
> +						nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed,
> +						GFP_KERNEL, true);
> +
> +		if (!reclaimed && !nr_retries--)
> +			break;
> +
> +		nr_reclaimed += reclaimed;

I think there should be a cond_resched() in this loop before
try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() to have better chances of reclaim
succeding early.

<snip>

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Cheers
~ Vaibhav