Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: Set the correct memcg swappiness restriction

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Jul 30 2021 - 02:39:25 EST


On Fri 30-07-21 14:26:35, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Since commit c843966c556d ("mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming
> anon over the file workingset") has expended the swappiness value to
> make swap to be preferred in some systems. We should also change the
> memcg swappiness restriction to allow memcg swap-preferred.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, this looks like an omission. It doesn't really make sense to have
two different constrains on the value.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 6580c23..988fc94 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4046,7 +4046,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
> {
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
>
> - if (val > 100)
> + if (val > 200)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> --
> 1.8.3.1

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs