tree 535720830c6f547e2d544d1dd02d23bae41da45e
parent c268e9946d7dc30ac4e55cdc3f43c8af1ae8153c
author Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> 1232056274 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1232066379 -0800

memcg: make oom less frequently

In previous implementation, mem_cgroup_try_charge checked the return
value of mem_cgroup_try_to_free_pages, and just retried if some pages
had been reclaimed.
But now, try_charge(and mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim called from it)
only checks whether the usage is less than the limit.

This patch tries to change the behavior as before to cause oom less
frequently.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>