Reclaim retries have been set to 5 since the beginning of time in
commit 66e1707bc346 ("Memory controller: add per cgroup LRU and
reclaim").  However, we now have a generally agreed-upon standard for
page reclaim: MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES (currently 16), added many years later
in commit 0a0337e0d1d1 ("mm, oom: rework oom detection").

In the absence of a compelling reason to declare an OOM earlier in memcg
context than page allocator context, it seems reasonable to supplant
MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES with MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES, making the page
allocator and memcg internals more similar in semantics when reclaim
fails to produce results, avoiding premature OOMs or throttling.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d4b0d8af3747..672123875494 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memory_cgrp_subsys);
 
 struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup __read_mostly;
 
-/* The number of times we should retry reclaim failures before giving up. */
-#define MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES     5
-
 /* Socket memory accounting disabled? */
 static bool cgroup_memory_nosocket;
 
@@ -2540,7 +2537,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_handle_over_high(void)
        unsigned long pflags;
        unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
        unsigned int nr_pages = current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high;
-       int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+       int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
        struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
        bool in_retry = false;
 
@@ -2617,7 +2614,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t 
gfp_mask,
                      unsigned int nr_pages)
 {
        unsigned int batch = max(MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH, nr_pages);
-       int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+       int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
        struct mem_cgroup *mem_over_limit;
        struct page_counter *counter;
        unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
@@ -2736,7 +2733,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t 
gfp_mask,
                       get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
        switch (oom_status) {
        case OOM_SUCCESS:
-               nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+               nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
                goto retry;
        case OOM_FAILED:
                goto force;
@@ -3396,7 +3393,7 @@ static inline bool memcg_has_children(struct mem_cgroup 
*memcg)
  */
 static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
-       int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+       int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
 
        /* we call try-to-free pages for make this cgroup empty */
        lru_add_drain_all();
@@ -6225,7 +6222,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file 
*of,
                                 char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
 {
        struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of));
-       unsigned int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+       unsigned int nr_retries = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
        bool drained = false;
        unsigned long high;
        int err;
@@ -6273,7 +6270,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file 
*of,
                                char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
 {
        struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of));
-       unsigned int nr_reclaims = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+       unsigned int nr_reclaims = MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
        bool drained = false;
        unsigned long max;
        int err;
-- 
2.27.0

Reply via email to