Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 4/5] memcg: fix wrong check of noswap with softlimit

Johannes Weiner
2011-06-14T09:49:04Z

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:11:05PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> >From 0a0358d300330a4ba86e39ea56ed63f1e4519dfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:31:16 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 4/5] fix wrong check of noswap with softlimit
>
> Hierarchical reclaim doesn't swap out if memsw and resource limits are
> same (memsw_is_minimum == true) because we would hit mem+swap limit
> anyway (during hard limit reclaim).
> If it comes to the solft limit we shouldn't consider memsw_is_minimum at
> all because it doesn't make much sense. Either the soft limit is bellow
> the hard limit and then we cannot hit mem+swap limit or the direct
> reclaim takes a precedence.
>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>