Re: [PATCH v2] mm: introduce memory.min

[Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > +  memory.min
> > > +	A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
> > > +	cgroups.  The default is "0".
> > > +
> > > +	Hard memory protection.  If the memory usage of a cgroup
> > > +	is within its effective min boundary, the cgroup's memory
> > > +	won't be reclaimed under any conditions. If there is no
> > > +	unprotected reclaimable memory available, OOM killer
> > > +	is invoked.
> > 
> > What will happen if all tasks attached to a cgroup are killed by OOM,
> > but its memory usage is still within memory.min? Will memory.min be
> > ignored then?
> 
> Not really.
> 
> I don't think it's a big problem as long as a user isn't doing
> something weird (e.g. moving processes with significant
> amount of charged memory to other cgroups).

The user doesn't have to do anything weird for this to happen - just
read a file. This will allocate and charge page cache pages that are
not mapped to any process and hence cannot be freed by OOM killer.

> 
> But what we can do here, is to ignore memory.min of empty cgroups
> (patch below), it will resolve some edge cases like this.

Makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Vladimir