From f8731ad37c674dbcd32ff75c54462de4852673d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:32:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: switch soft limit default back to infinity Commit 7812d2571b5f ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters") accidentally switched the soft limit default from infinity to zero, which turns all memcgs with even a single page into soft limit excessors and engages soft limit reclaim on all of them during global memory pressure. This makes global reclaim generally more aggressive, but also inverts the meaning of existing soft limit configurations where unset soft limits are usually more generous than set ones. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memcontrol.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index ef91e856c7e45..b7104a55ae645 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4679,6 +4679,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css) if (parent_css == NULL) { root_mem_cgroup = memcg; page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL); + memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL); page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL); } @@ -4724,6 +4725,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) if (parent->use_hierarchy) { page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, &parent->memory); + memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, &parent->memsw); page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem); @@ -4733,6 +4735,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) */ } else { page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL); + memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL); page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL); /* @@ -4807,7 +4810,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) mem_cgroup_resize_limit(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); mem_cgroup_resize_memsw_limit(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); memcg_update_kmem_limit(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); - memcg->soft_limit = 0; + memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX; } #ifdef CONFIG_MMU -- 2.39.5