Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net-memcg: Fix scope of sockmem pressure indicators

[Shakeel Butt]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:09 AM Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now there are two indicators of socket memory pressure sit inside
> struct mem_cgroup, socket_pressure and tcpmem_pressure, indicating
> memory reclaim pressure in memcg->memory and ->tcpmem respectively.
>
> When in legacy mode (cgroupv1), the socket memory is charged into
> ->tcpmem which is independent of ->memory, so socket_pressure has
> nothing to do with socket's pressure at all. Things could be worse
> by taking socket_pressure into consideration in legacy mode, as a
> pressure in ->memory can lead to premature reclamation/throttling
> in socket.
>
> While for the default mode (cgroupv2), the socket memory is charged
> into ->memory, and ->tcpmem/->tcpmem_pressure are simply not used.
>
> So {socket,tcpmem}_pressure are only used in default/legacy mode
> respectively for indicating socket memory pressure. This patch fixes
> the pieces of code that make mixed use of both.
>
> Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
> Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So, this is undoing the unintended exposure of v2 functionality for
the v1. I wonder if someone might have started depending upon that
behavior but I am more convinced that no one is using v1's tcpmem
accounting due to performance impact. So, this looks good to me.

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>

I do think we should start the deprecation process of v1's tcpmem accounting.