From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] mm/page_alloc.c: Allow __GFP_NOFAIL requests deeper access to reserves
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:05:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1eca7836-2e90-0ed8-7556-fa6be057aad2@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230109151631.24923-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
On 1/9/23 16:16, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Currently __GFP_NOFAIL allocations without any other flags can access 25%
> of the reserves but these requests imply that the system cannot make forward
> progress until the allocation succeeds. Allow __GFP_NOFAIL access to 75%
> of the min reserve.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 6f41b84a97ac..d2df78f5baa2 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5308,7 +5308,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
> * could deplete whole memory reserves which would just make
> * the situation worse
> */
> - page = __alloc_pages_cpuset_fallback(gfp_mask, order, ALLOC_HARDER, ac);
> + page = __alloc_pages_cpuset_fallback(gfp_mask, order, ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE|ALLOC_HARDER, ac);
> if (page)
> goto got_pg;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-11 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-09 15:16 [PATCH 0/6 v2] Discard __GFP_ATOMIC Mel Gorman
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm/page_alloc: Rename ALLOC_HIGH to ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE Mel Gorman
2023-01-11 15:18 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 9:26 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/page_alloc: Treat RT tasks similar to __GFP_HIGH Mel Gorman
2023-01-11 15:27 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-12 9:47 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 16:42 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-13 9:04 ` David Laight
2023-01-13 11:09 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm/page_alloc: Explicitly record high-order atomic allocations in alloc_flags Mel Gorman
2023-01-10 15:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-01-11 15:36 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 9:38 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm/page_alloc: Explicitly define what alloc flags deplete min reserves Mel Gorman
2023-01-11 14:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-01-11 15:37 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm/page_alloc.c: Allow __GFP_NOFAIL requests deeper access to reserves Mel Gorman
2023-01-11 14:05 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2023-01-11 15:46 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm/page_alloc: Give GFP_ATOMIC and non-blocking allocations " Mel Gorman
2023-01-11 14:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-01-11 15:58 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-11 17:05 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-12 8:11 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 8:29 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-12 9:24 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-12 9:45 ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-14 22:10 ` NeilBrown
2023-01-16 10:29 ` Mel Gorman
2023-01-09 15:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm: discard __GFP_ATOMIC Mel Gorman
2023-01-12 8:12 ` Michal Hocko
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