From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: memcg: limit change shrink usage X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~369 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=628f423553;p=karo-tx-linux.git memcg: limit change shrink usage Shrinking memory usage at limit change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 866b9cd9a959..9b53d5827361 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ rmdir() if there are no tasks. 1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller) 2. Make per-cgroup scanner reclaim not-shared pages first 3. Teach controller to account for shared-pages -4. Start reclamation when the limit is lowered -5. Start reclamation in the background when the limit is +4. Start reclamation in the background when the limit is not yet hit but the usage is getting closer Summary diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 0c035647d36a..fba566c51322 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -812,6 +812,30 @@ int mem_cgroup_shrink_usage(struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask) return 0; } +int mem_cgroup_resize_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long long val) +{ + + int retry_count = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + int progress; + int ret = 0; + + while (res_counter_set_limit(&memcg->res, val)) { + if (signal_pending(current)) { + ret = -EINTR; + break; + } + if (!retry_count) { + ret = -EBUSY; + break; + } + progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!progress) + retry_count--; + } + return ret; +} + + /* * This routine traverse page_cgroup in given list and drop them all. * *And* this routine doesn't reclaim page itself, just removes page_cgroup. @@ -896,13 +920,29 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft) return res_counter_read_u64(&mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont)->res, cft->private); } - +/* + * The user of this function is... + * RES_LIMIT. + */ static int mem_cgroup_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, const char *buffer) { - return res_counter_write(&mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont)->res, - cft->private, buffer, - res_counter_memparse_write_strategy); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont); + unsigned long long val; + int ret; + + switch (cft->private) { + case RES_LIMIT: + /* This function does all necessary parse...reuse it */ + ret = res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(buffer, &val); + if (!ret) + ret = mem_cgroup_resize_limit(memcg, val); + break; + default: + ret = -EINVAL; /* should be BUG() ? */ + break; + } + return ret; } static int mem_cgroup_reset(struct cgroup *cont, unsigned int event)