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From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:28:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150114142841.GE11264@esperanza> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420776904-8559-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 11:15:04PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>   - memory.low configures the lower end of the cgroup's expected
>     memory consumption range.  The kernel considers memory below that
>     boundary to be a reserve - the minimum that the workload needs in
>     order to make forward progress - and generally avoids reclaiming
>     it, unless there is an imminent risk of entering an OOM situation.

AFAICS, if a cgroup cannot be shrunk back to its low limit (e.g.
because it consumes anon memory, and there's no swap), it will get on
with it. Is it considered to be a problem? Are there any plans to fix
it, e.g. by invoking OOM-killer in a cgroup that is above its low limit
if we fail to reclaim from it?

Thanks,
Vladimir

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-14 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-09  4:15 [patch 1/2] mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse() Johannes Weiner
2015-01-09  4:15 ` [patch 2/2] mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory Johannes Weiner
2015-01-12 23:37   ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-13 15:50     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-13 20:52       ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-13 21:44         ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-13 23:20   ` Greg Thelen
2015-01-14 16:01     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-14 14:28   ` Vladimir Davydov [this message]
2015-01-14 15:34   ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-14 17:19     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-15 17:08       ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-14 16:17   ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-13 15:59 ` [patch 1/2] mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse() Vladimir Davydov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-20 15:31 [patch 0/2] mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory v2 Johannes Weiner
2015-01-20 15:31 ` [patch 2/2] mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory Johannes Weiner
2015-01-20 16:31   ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-23 11:13   ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-23 14:28     ` Michal Hocko

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