[RFC PATCH v3 08/14] mm/memcontrol: Make memory.low and memory.min tier-aware
Joshua Hahn <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Aug 2026 13:20:51 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.cgroups,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On machines serving multiple workloads whose memory is isolated via
the memory cgroup controller, it is currently impossible to enforce a
fair distribution of tiered memory among the workloads, as the only
enforceable limits have to do with total memory footprint, but not where
that memory resides.
This makes ensuring a consistent and baseline performance difficult, as
each workload's performance is heavily impacted by workload-external
factors such as which other workloads are co-located in the same host,
and the order at which different workloads are started.
Extend the existing memory.{low, min} protection to be tier-aware in
order to enforce proportional best-effort and guaranteed memory
protection of higher-tier memory.
No-op unless the system has tiered memcg limits enabled.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
mm/memcontrol.c | 11 ++++++++++-
mm/vmscan.c | 15 +++++++++------
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index f7a92b66330ec..ceba0fd6de184 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/page_counter.h>
#include <linux/vmpressure.h>
#include <linux/eventfd.h>
+#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/vmstat.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
@@ -618,21 +619,37 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_unprotected(struct mem_cgroup *target,
}
static inline bool mem_cgroup_below_low(struct mem_cgroup *target,
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid)
{
if (mem_cgroup_unprotected(target, memcg))
return false;
+ if (mem_cgroup_tiered_limits()) {
+ int slot = nid_tier_slot(nid);
+
+ if (slot >= 0)
+ return READ_ONCE(memcg->tier[slot].elow) >=
+ page_counter_read(&memcg->tier[slot]);
+ }
+
return READ_ONCE(memcg->memory.elow) >=
page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
}
static inline bool mem_cgroup_below_min(struct mem_cgroup *target,
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid)
{
if (mem_cgroup_unprotected(target, memcg))
return false;
+ if (mem_cgroup_tiered_limits()) {
+ int slot = nid_tier_slot(nid);
+
+ if (slot >= 0)
+ return READ_ONCE(memcg->tier[slot].emin) >=
+ page_counter_read(&memcg->tier[slot]);
+ }
+
return READ_ONCE(memcg->memory.emin) >=
page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
}
@@ -1142,13 +1159,13 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_unprotected(struct mem_cgroup *target,
return true;
}
static inline bool mem_cgroup_below_low(struct mem_cgroup *target,
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid)
{
return false;
}
static inline bool mem_cgroup_below_min(struct mem_cgroup *target,
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid)
{
return false;
}
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f3714dfd85aa0..025496794cb91 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5310,7 +5310,16 @@ void mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(struct mem_cgroup *root,
if (!root)
root = root_mem_cgroup;
- page_counter_calculate_protection(&root->memory, &memcg->memory, recursive_protection);
+ page_counter_calculate_protection(&root->memory, &memcg->memory,
+ recursive_protection);
+
+ if (mem_cgroup_tiered_limits()) {
+ int nr_tier_slots = mt_nr_tier_slots();
+
+ for (int slot = 0; slot < nr_tier_slots; slot++)
+ page_counter_calculate_protection(&root->tier[slot],
+ &memcg->tier[slot], recursive_protection);
+ }
}
static int charge_memcg(struct folio *folio, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ffe7ea3c5aff6..29f3f12042650 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4190,7 +4190,7 @@ static bool lruvec_is_reclaimable(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
DEFINE_MIN_SEQ(lruvec);
- if (mem_cgroup_below_min(NULL, memcg))
+ if (mem_cgroup_below_min(NULL, memcg, lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->node_id))
return false;
if (!lruvec_is_sizable(lruvec, sc))
@@ -5057,6 +5057,7 @@ static bool try_to_shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
bool need_rotate = false, should_age = false;
long nr_batch, nr_to_scan;
int swappiness = get_swappiness(lruvec, sc);
+ int nid = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->node_id;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
nr_to_scan = get_nr_to_scan(lruvec, sc, memcg, swappiness);
@@ -5064,7 +5065,7 @@ static bool try_to_shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
int delta;
DEFINE_MAX_SEQ(lruvec);
- if (mem_cgroup_below_min(sc->target_mem_cgroup, memcg)) {
+ if (mem_cgroup_below_min(sc->target_mem_cgroup, memcg, nid)) {
need_rotate = true;
break;
}
@@ -5104,12 +5105,13 @@ static int shrink_one(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
unsigned long reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
+ int nid = pgdat->node_id;
/* lru_gen_age_node() called mem_cgroup_calculate_protection() */
- if (mem_cgroup_below_min(NULL, memcg))
+ if (mem_cgroup_below_min(NULL, memcg, nid))
return MEMCG_LRU_YOUNG;
- if (mem_cgroup_below_low(NULL, memcg)) {
+ if (mem_cgroup_below_low(NULL, memcg, nid)) {
/* see the comment on MEMCG_NR_GENS */
if (READ_ONCE(lruvec->lrugen.seg) != MEMCG_LRU_TAIL)
return MEMCG_LRU_TAIL;
@@ -6168,6 +6170,7 @@ static void shrink_node_memcgs(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
};
struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *partial = &reclaim;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+ int nid = pgdat->node_id;
/*
* In most cases, direct reclaimers can do partial walks
@@ -6197,13 +6200,13 @@ static void shrink_node_memcgs(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(target_memcg, memcg);
- if (mem_cgroup_below_min(target_memcg, memcg)) {
+ if (mem_cgroup_below_min(target_memcg, memcg, nid)) {
/*
* Hard protection.
* If there is no reclaimable memory, OOM.
*/
continue;
- } else if (mem_cgroup_below_low(target_memcg, memcg)) {
+ } else if (mem_cgroup_below_low(target_memcg, memcg, nid)) {
/*
* Soft protection.
* Respect the protection only as long as
--
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