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The high limit is used to throttle the workload without invoking the oom-killer. Recently we tried to use the high limit to right size our internal workloads. More specifically dynamically adjusting the limits of the workload without letting the workload get oom-killed. However due to the limitation of the implementation of high limit enforcement, we observed the mechanism fails for some real workloads. The high limit is enforced on return-to-userspace i.e. the kernel let the usage goes over the limit and when the execution returns to userspace, the high reclaim is triggered and the process can get throttled as well. However this mechanism fails for workloads which do large allocations in a single kernel entry e.g. applications that mlock() a large chunk of memory in a single syscall. Such applications bypass the high limit and can trigger the oom-killer. To make high limit enforcement more robust, this patch makes the limit enforcement synchronous only if the accumulated overcharge becomes larger than MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH. So, most of the allocations would still be throttled on the return-to-userspace path but only the extreme allocations which accumulates large amount of overcharge without returning to the userspace will be throttled synchronously. The value MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH is a bit arbitrary but most of other places in the memcg codebase uses this constant therefore for now uses the same one. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220211064917.2028469-5-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@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.