| From: |
| Jakub Kicinski <kuba-AT-kernel.org> |
| To: |
| akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH mm v6 0/4] memcg: Slow down swap allocation as the available space gets depleted |
| Date: |
| Wed, 27 May 2020 12:58:42 -0700 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20200527195846.102707-1-kuba@kernel.org> |
| Cc: |
| linux-mm-AT-kvack.org, kernel-team-AT-fb.com, tj-AT-kernel.org, hannes-AT-cmpxchg.org, chris-AT-chrisdown.name, cgroups-AT-vger.kernel.org, shakeelb-AT-google.com, mhocko-AT-kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba-AT-kernel.org> |
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Tejun describes the problem as follows:
When swap runs out, there's an abrupt change in system behavior -
the anonymous memory suddenly becomes unmanageable which readily
breaks any sort of memory isolation and can bring down the whole
system. To avoid that, oomd [1] monitors free swap space and triggers
kills when it drops below the specific threshold (e.g. 15%).
While this works, it's far from ideal:
- Depending on IO performance and total swap size, a given
headroom might not be enough or too much.
- oomd has to monitor swap depletion in addition to the usual
pressure metrics and it currently doesn't consider memory.swap.max.
Solve this by adapting parts of the approach that memory.high uses -
slow down allocation as the resource gets depleted turning the
depletion behavior from abrupt cliff one to gradual degradation
observable through memory pressure metric.
[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200521002411.3963032-1...
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200519171938.3569605-1...
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200515202027.3217470-1...
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200511225516.2431921-1...
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200417010617.927266-1-...
Jakub Kicinski (4):
mm: prepare for swap over-high accounting and penalty calculation
mm: move penalty delay clamping out of calculate_high_delay()
mm: move cgroup high memory limit setting into struct page_counter
mm: automatically penalize tasks with high swap use
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 20 +++
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 +-
include/linux/page_counter.h | 8 ++
mm/memcontrol.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++------
4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
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