Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:44:59 +0100
From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
CC: <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>, <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use per-cpu stocks for socket memory
 uncharging
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 29-08-17 11:01:50, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index b9cf3cf4a3d0..a69d23082abf 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -1792,6 +1792,9 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
> >  	}
> >  	stock->nr_pages += nr_pages;
> >  
> > +	if (stock->nr_pages > CHARGE_BATCH)
> > +		drain_stock(stock);
> > +
> >  	local_irq_restore(flags);
> >  }
> 
> Why do we need this? In other words, why cannot we rely on draining we
> already do?

The existing draining depends on memory pressure, so to keep
the accounting (which we expose to a user) reasonable accurate
even without memory pressure, we need to limit the size of per-cpu stocks.

Thanks!