On Thu 29-05-14 12:15:54, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The charging path currently starts out with OOM condition checks when
> OOM is the rarest possible case.
> 
> Rearrange this code to run OOM/task dying checks only after trying the
> percpu charge and the res_counter charge and bail out before entering
> reclaim.  Attempting a charge does not hurt an (oom-)killed task as
> much as every charge attempt having to check OOM conditions.  Also,
> only check __GFP_NOFAIL when the charge would actually fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index c3c10ab98355..46b3e37542ad 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2576,22 +2576,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mem_cgroup 
> *memcg,
>  
>       if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
>               goto done;
> -     /*
> -      * Unlike in global OOM situations, memcg is not in a physical
> -      * memory shortage.  Allow dying and OOM-killed tasks to
> -      * bypass the last charges so that they can exit quickly and
> -      * free their memory.
> -      */
> -     if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) ||
> -                  fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
> -                  current->flags & PF_EXITING))
> -             goto bypass;
> -
> -     if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
> -             goto nomem;
> -
> -     if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
> -             oom = false;
>  retry:
>       if (consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages))
>               goto done;
> @@ -2613,6 +2597,20 @@ retry:
>               goto retry;
>       }
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Unlike in global OOM situations, memcg is not in a physical
> +      * memory shortage.  Allow dying and OOM-killed tasks to
> +      * bypass the last charges so that they can exit quickly and
> +      * free their memory.
> +      */
> +     if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE) ||
> +                  fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
> +                  current->flags & PF_EXITING))
> +             goto bypass;
> +
> +     if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
> +             goto nomem;
> +
>       if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
>               goto nomem;
>  
> @@ -2641,6 +2639,9 @@ retry:
>       if (mem_cgroup_wait_acct_move(mem_over_limit))
>               goto retry;
>  
> +     if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
> +             goto bypass;
> +
>       if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
>               goto bypass;
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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