mm: memcg: allow lowering memory.swap.max below the current usage
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:09:21 +0000 (17:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:34:37 +0000 (17:34 -0700)
commitbe09102b4190561b67e3809b07a7fd29c9774152
treefe377c3140a10db766473986b0fec1e1dbd59008
parent20acce679910fb6d30a89fa02586a3b4a134dfeb
mm: memcg: allow lowering memory.swap.max below the current usage

Currently an attempt to set swap.max into a value lower than the actual
swap usage fails, which causes configuration problems as there's no way
of lowering the configuration below the current usage short of turning
off swap entirely.  This makes swap.max difficult to use and allows
delegatees to lock the delegator out of reducing swap allocation.

This patch updates swap_max_write() so that the limit can be lowered
below the current usage.  It doesn't implement active reclaiming of swap
entries for the following reasons.

* mem_cgroup_swap_full() already tells the swap machinary to
  aggressively reclaim swap entries if the usage is above 50% of
  limit, so simply lowering the limit automatically triggers gradual
  reclaim.

* Forcing back swapped out pages is likely to heavily impact the
  workload and mess up the working set.  Given that swap usually is a
  lot less valuable and less scarce, letting the existing usage
  dissipate over time through the above gradual reclaim and as they're
  falted back in is likely the better behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180523185041.GR1718769@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
mm/memcontrol.c