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memcg: avoid percpu cached charge draining at softlimit 

Based on Michal Hocko's comment.

We are not draining per cpu cached charges during soft limit reclaim
because background reclaim doesn't care about charges.  It tries to free
some memory and charges will not give any.

Cached charges might influence only selection of the biggest soft limit
offender but as the call is done only after the selection has been already
done it makes no change.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2011-06-15 15:08:46 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 26fe616844
commit fbc29a25e4
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@ -1670,7 +1670,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem,
victim = mem_cgroup_select_victim(root_mem);
if (victim == root_mem) {
loop++;
if (loop >= 1)
/*
* We are not draining per cpu cached charges during
* soft limit reclaim because global reclaim doesn't
* care about charges. It tries to free some memory and
* charges will not give any.
*/
if (!check_soft && loop >= 1)
drain_all_stock_async(root_mem);
if (loop >= 2) {
/*