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mm/memcg: prepare for swap over-high accounting and penalty calculation
Patch series "memcg: Slow down swap allocation as the available space gets depleted", v6. Tejun describes the problem as follows: When swap runs out, there's an abrupt change in system behavior - the anonymous memory suddenly becomes unmanageable which readily breaks any sort of memory isolation and can bring down the whole system. To avoid that, oomd [1] monitors free swap space and triggers kills when it drops below the specific threshold (e.g. 15%). While this works, it's far from ideal: - Depending on IO performance and total swap size, a given headroom might not be enough or too much. - oomd has to monitor swap depletion in addition to the usual pressure metrics and it currently doesn't consider memory.swap.max. Solve this by adapting parts of the approach that memory.high uses - slow down allocation as the resource gets depleted turning the depletion behavior from abrupt cliff one to gradual degradation observable through memory pressure metric. [1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd This patch (of 4): Slice the memory overage calculation logic a little bit so we can reuse it to apply a similar penalty to the swap. The logic which accesses the memory-specific fields (use and high values) has to be taken out of calculate_high_delay(). Signed-off-by:Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: