[PATCH 6/6] memcg: avoid percpu cached charge draining at softlimit.

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

 We are not draining per cpu cached charges during soft limit reclaim
 because background reclaim doesn't care about charges. It tries to free
 some memory and charges will not give any.
 Cached charges might influence only selection of the biggest soft limit
 offender but as the call is done only after the selection has been
 already done it makes no change.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 8fb29de..fa5c918 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1670,7 +1670,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem,
 		victim = mem_cgroup_select_victim(root_mem);
 		if (victim == root_mem) {
 			loop++;
-			if (loop >= 1)
+			/*
+			 * We are not draining per cpu cached charges during
+			 * soft limit reclaim  because global reclaim doesn't
+			 * care about charges. It tries to free some memory and
+			 * charges will not give any.
+			 */
+			if (!check_soft && loop >= 1)
 				drain_all_stock_async(root_mem);
 			if (loop >= 2) {
 				/*
-- 
1.7.4.1


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