[Devel] Re: [PATCH 02/11] memcg: Reclaim when more than one page needed.

[Suleiman Souhlal]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com> wrote:
> From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal at FreeBSD.org>
>
> mem_cgroup_do_charge() was written before slab accounting, and expects
> three cases: being called for 1 page, being called for a stock of 32 pages,
> or being called for a hugepage.  If we call for 2 or 3 pages (and several
> slabs used in process creation are such, at least with the debug options I
> had), it assumed it's being called for stock and just retried without reclaiming.
>
> Fix that by passing down a minsize argument in addition to the csize.
>
> And what to do about that (csize == PAGE_SIZE && ret) retry?  If it's
> needed at all (and presumably is since it's there, perhaps to handle
> races), then it should be extended to more than PAGE_SIZE, yet how far?
> And should there be a retry count limit, of what?  For now retry up to
> COSTLY_ORDER (as page_alloc.c does), stay safe with a cond_resched(),
> and make sure not to do it if __GFP_NORETRY.

The commit description mentions COSTLY_ORDER, but it's not actually
used in the patch.

-- Suleiman