Re: [PATCH 07/13] memcontrol: schedule throttling if we are congested

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Memory allocations can induce swapping via kswapd or direct reclaim.  If
> we are having IO done for us by kswapd and don't actually go into direct
> reclaim we may never get scheduled for throttling.  So instead check to
> see if our cgroup is congested, and if so schedule the throttling.
> Before we return to user space the throttling stuff will only throttle
> if we actually required it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun