Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use per-cpu stocks for socket memory uncharging

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 30-08-17 13:44:59, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 29-08-17 11:01:50, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > [...]
> > > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > index b9cf3cf4a3d0..a69d23082abf 100644
> > > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > @@ -1792,6 +1792,9 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
> > >  	}
> > >  	stock->nr_pages += nr_pages;
> > >  
> > > +	if (stock->nr_pages > CHARGE_BATCH)
> > > +		drain_stock(stock);
> > > +
> > >  	local_irq_restore(flags);
> > >  }
> > 
> > Why do we need this? In other words, why cannot we rely on draining we
> > already do?
> 
> The existing draining depends on memory pressure, so to keep
> the accounting (which we expose to a user) reasonable accurate
> even without memory pressure, we need to limit the size of per-cpu stocks.

Why don't we need this for regular page charges? Or maybe we do but that
sounds like a seprate and an unrealted fix to me.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs