Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next 1/2] net-memcg: Scopify the indicators of sockmem pressure

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Jul 20 2023 - 05:14:42 EST


On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 9:59 AM Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Gentle ping :)

I was hoping for some feedback from memcg experts.

You claim to fix a bug, please provide a Fixes: tag so that we can
involve original patch author.

Thanks.

>
> On 7/11/23 8:41 PM, Abel Wu wrote:
> > Now there are two indicators of socket memory pressure sit inside
> > struct mem_cgroup, socket_pressure and tcpmem_pressure.
> >
> > When in legacy mode aka. cgroupv1, the socket memory is charged
> > into a separate counter memcg->tcpmem rather than ->memory, so
> > the reclaim pressure of the memcg has nothing to do with socket's
> > pressure at all. While for default mode, the ->tcpmem is simply
> > not used.
> >
> > So {socket,tcpmem}_pressure are only used in default/legacy mode
> > respectively. This patch fixes the pieces of code that make mixed
> > use of both.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++--
> > mm/vmpressure.c | 8 ++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >