memcg: net: track network throttling due to memcg memory pressure
authorShakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:10:35 +0000 (09:10 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:28:06 +0000 (17:28 -0800)
commitd929525c2e30abee621bf71f143ba6104c81ff2b
tree892c5af163b991f31c4924cdbb413a5be67131f1
parenta059ad48b453ad9ebdefaba6248229e83e5ad4d9
memcg: net: track network throttling due to memcg memory pressure

The kernel can throttle network sockets if the memory cgroup associated
with the corresponding socket is under memory pressure.  The throttling
actions include clamping the transmit window, failing to expand receive or
send buffers, aggressively prune out-of-order receive queue, FIN deferred
to a retransmitted packet and more.  Let's add memcg metric to track such
throttling actions.

At the moment memcg memory pressure is defined through vmpressure and in
future it may be defined using PSI or we may add more flexible way for the
users to define memory pressure, maybe through ebpf.  However the
potential throttling actions will remain the same, so this newly
introduced metric will continue to track throttling actions irrespective
of how memcg memory pressure is defined.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251016161035.86161-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Sedlak <daniel.sedlak@cdn77.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
include/linux/memcontrol.h
include/net/sock.h
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
mm/memcontrol.c