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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 21 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 4372e6b8a353..97aa4ebf6d93 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ Note: 5.3 swappiness Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only. +Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0 +really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage +available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file +pages to reclaim. Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed. - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness). diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 795e525afaba..7cc4239f36e0 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1458,17 +1458,26 @@ static int mem_cgroup_count_children(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) static u64 mem_cgroup_get_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { u64 limit; - u64 memsw; limit = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_LIMIT); - limit += total_swap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT; - memsw = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_LIMIT); /* - * If memsw is finite and limits the amount of swap space available - * to this memcg, return that limit. + * Do not consider swap space if we cannot swap due to swappiness */ - return min(limit, memsw); + if (mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg)) { + u64 memsw; + + limit += total_swap_pages << PAGE_SHIFT; + memsw = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_LIMIT); + + /* + * If memsw is finite and limits the amount of swap space + * available to this memcg, return that limit. + */ + limit = min(limit, memsw); + } + + return limit; } void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask, |