Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem: set default tmpfs size according to memcg limit

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 17-11-17 09:49:54, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > Of couse that is the best way.
> > But we can not ensue all applications will do it.
> > That's why I introduce a proper defalut value for them.
> >
> 
> I think we disagree on the how to get proper default value. Unless you
> can restrict that all the memory allocated for a tmpfs mount will be
> charged to a specific memcg, you should not just pick limit of the
> memcg of the process mounting the tmpfs to set the default of tmpfs
> mount. If you can restrict tmpfs charging to a specific memcg then the
> limit of that memcg should be used to set the default of the tmpfs
> mount. However this feature is not present in the upstream kernel at
> the moment (We have this feature in our local kernel and I am planning
> to upstream that).

I think the whole problem is that containers pretend to be independent
while they share a non-reclaimable resource. Fix this and you will not
have a problem. I am afraid that the only real fix is to make tmpfs
private per container instance and that is something you can easily
achieve in the userspace.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs