Re: [PATCH 07/13] memcontrol: schedule throttling if we are congested
From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Jun 11 2018 - 10:06:44 EST
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>
Looks good to me now, thanks.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>