From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f49.google.com (mail-lf0-f49.google.com [209.85.215.49]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7293F6B0253 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lffv3 with SMTP id v3so58748516lff.0 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.parallels.com (relay.parallels.com. [195.214.232.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ta8si10436630lbb.115.2015.10.22.11.46.24 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:46:12 +0300 From: Vladimir Davydov Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] net: consolidate memcg socket buffer tracking and accounting Message-ID: <20151022184612.GN18351@esperanza> References: <1445487696-21545-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1445487696-21545-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1445487696-21545-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Tejun Heo , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:21:31AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > The tcp memory controller has extensive provisions for future memory > accounting interfaces that won't materialize after all. Cut the code > base down to what's actually used, now and in the likely future. > > - There won't be any different protocol counters in the future, so a > direct sock->sk_memcg linkage is enough. This eliminates a lot of > callback maze and boilerplate code, and restores most of the socket > allocation code to pre-tcp_memcontrol state. > > - There won't be a tcp control soft limit, so integrating the memcg In fact, the code is ready for the "soft" limit (I mean min, pressure, max tuple), it just lacks a knob. > code into the global skmem limiting scheme complicates things > unnecessarily. Replace all that with simple and clear charge and > uncharge calls--hidden behind a jump label--to account skb memory. > > - The previous jump label code was an elaborate state machine that > tracked the number of cgroups with an active socket limit in order > to enable the skmem tracking and accounting code only when actively > necessary. But this is overengineered: it was meant to protect the > people who never use this feature in the first place. Simply enable > the branches once when the first limit is set until the next reboot. > ... > @@ -1136,9 +1090,6 @@ static inline bool sk_under_memory_pressure(const struct sock *sk) > if (!sk->sk_prot->memory_pressure) > return false; > > - if (mem_cgroup_sockets_enabled && sk->sk_cgrp) > - return !!sk->sk_cgrp->memory_pressure; > - AFAIU, now we won't shrink the window on hitting the limit, i.e. this patch subtly changes the behavior of the existing knobs, potentially breaking them. Thanks, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org