Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 18:16:26 EST


On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:55:54PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Workingset code was recently made memcg aware, but shadow node shrinker
> is still global. As a result, one small cgroup can consume all memory
> available for shadow nodes, possibly hurting other cgroups by reclaiming
> their shadow nodes, even though reclaim distances stored in its shadow
> nodes have no effect. To avoid this, we need to make shadow node
> shrinker memcg aware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

w00t!

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>