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Commit 889976db authored by Ying Han's avatar Ying Han Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: reclaim memory from nodes in round-robin order



Presently, memory cgroup's direct reclaim frees memory from the current
node.  But this has some troubles.  Usually when a set of threads works in
a cooperative way, they tend to operate on the same node.  So if they hit
limits under memcg they will reclaim memory from themselves, damaging the
active working set.

For example, assume 2 node system which has Node 0 and Node 1 and a memcg
which has 1G limit.  After some work, file cache remains and the usages
are

   Node 0:  1M
   Node 1:  998M.

and run an application on Node 0, it will eat its foot before freeing
unnecessary file caches.

This patch adds round-robin for NUMA and adds equal pressure to each node.
When using cpuset's spread memory feature, this will work very well.

But yes, a better algorithm is needed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment editing]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix time comparisons]
Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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