Re: [PATCH RFC] net: memcg accounting for veth devices

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 01:25:16PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
> index 4f5613dac227..980ffaba1ac5 100644
> --- a/kernel/ucount.c
> +++ b/kernel/ucount.c
> @@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ struct ucounts *inc_ucount(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid,
>  		long max;
>  		tns = iter->ns;
>  		max = READ_ONCE(tns->ucount_max[type]);
> +		if (atomic_long_read(&iter->ucount[type]) > max/16)
> +			cond_resched();
>  		if (!atomic_long_inc_below(&iter->ucount[type], max))
>  			goto fail;

You can of course ignore this, it was just a hack to try to avoid
a soft lockup on the workqueues.

  Luis