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net-memcg: avoid stalls when under memory pressure
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:03:04 +0000 (09:03 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 3 Nov 2022 15:00:31 +0000 (00:00 +0900)
commit568737b2829631927b6aed7308e37bc33a3bd3a4
tree5ffad8132b84ea5fd1abc0e7f56070ac2cce4825
parent0262c9f7cfdf1e43d2a2fdc5d4617c14e4ba0879
net-memcg: avoid stalls when under memory pressure

[ Upstream commit 720ca52bcef225b967a339e0fffb6d0c7e962240 ]

As Shakeel explains the commit under Fixes had the unintended
side-effect of no longer pre-loading the cached memory allowance.
Even tho we previously dropped the first packet received when
over memory limit - the consecutive ones would get thru by using
the cache. The charging was happening in batches of 128kB, so
we'd let in 128kB (truesize) worth of packets per one drop.

After the change we no longer force charge, there will be no
cache filling side effects. This causes significant drops and
connection stalls for workloads which use a lot of page cache,
since we can't reclaim page cache under GFP_NOWAIT.

Some of the latency can be recovered by improving SACK reneg
handling but nowhere near enough to get back to the pre-5.15
performance (the application I'm experimenting with still
sees 5-10x worst latency).

Apply the suggested workaround of using GFP_ATOMIC. We will now
be more permissive than previously as we'll drop _no_ packets
in softirq when under pressure. But I can't think of any good
and simple way to address that within networking.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221012163300.795e7b86@kernel.org/
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Fixes: 4b1327be9fe5 ("net-memcg: pass in gfp_t mask to mem_cgroup_charge_skmem()")
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221021160304.1362511-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/net/sock.h