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When available, enable memory_recursiveprot. Realistically it always
makes sense to delegate MemoryLow= and MemoryMin= to all children of a
slice/unit.
The kernel option is not enabled by default as it might cause
regressions in some setups. However, it is the better default in
general, and it results in a more flexible and obvious behaviour.
The alternative to using this option would be for user's to also set
DefaultMemoryLow= on slices when assigning MemoryLow=. However, this
makes the effect of MemoryLow= on some children less obvious, as it
could result in a lower protection rather than increasing it.
From the kernel documentation:
memory_recursiveprot
Recursively apply memory.min and memory.low protection to
entire subtrees, without requiring explicit downward
propagation into leaf cgroups. This allows protecting entire
subtrees from one another, while retaining free competition
within those subtrees. This should have been the default
behavior but is a mount-option to avoid regressing setups
relying on the original semantics (e.g. specifying bogusly
high 'bypass' protection values at higher tree levels).
This was added in kernel commit 8a931f801340c (mm: memcontrol:
recursive memory.low protection), which became available in 5.7 and was
subsequently fixed in kernel 5.7.7 (mm: memcontrol: handle div0 crash
race condition in memory.low).
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