Re: (resend) [PATCH] vmscan,memcg: memcg aware swap token
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 04:57:09 EST
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:59:19 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently, memcg reclaim can disable swap token even if the swap token
> mm doesn't belong in its memory cgroup. It's slightly riskly. If an
> admin makes very small mem-cgroup and silly guy runs contenious heavy
> memory pressure workloa, whole tasks in the system are going to lose
> swap-token and then system may become unresponsive. That's bad.
>
> This patch adds 'memcg' parameter into disable_swap_token(). and if
> the parameter doesn't match swap-token, VM doesn't put swap-token.
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ack. Thank you.
-Kame
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