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When memory.reclaim was introduced, it became the first case where cgroup_reclaim() is true for the root cgroup. Johannes concluded [1] that for most cases this is okay, except for one case. Historically, kswapd would throttle reclaim on a node if a lot of pages marked for reclaim are under writeback (aka the node is congested). This occurred by setting LRUVEC_CONGESTED bit in lruvec->flags. The bit would be cleared when the node is balanced. Similarly, cgroup reclaim would set the same bit when an lruvec is congested, and clear it on the way out of reclaim (to throttle local reclaimers). Before the introduction of memory.reclaim, the root memcg was the only target of kswapd reclaim, and non-root memcgs were the only targets of cgroup reclaim, so they would never interfere. Using the same bit for both was fine. After memory.reclaim, it is possible for cgroup reclaim on the root cgroup to clear the bit set by kswapd. This would result in reclaim on the node to be unthrottled before the node is balanced. Fix this by introducing separate bits for cgroup-level and node-level congestion. kswapd can unthrottle an lruvec that is marked as congested by cgroup reclaim (as the entire node should no longer be congested), but not vice versa (to prevent premature unthrottling before the entire node is balanced). [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230405200150.GA35884@cmpxchg.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230621023101.432780-1-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230405200150.GA35884@cmpxchg.org/ Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.