From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Deadlock possibly caused by too_many_isolated.
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:54:08 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019113316.A1CF.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=1j5ejRyki+2wmKvOitorteW6uL53wfAWiPeAs@mail.gmail.com>
> >> > Can you please elaborate your intention? Do you think Wu's approach is wrong?
> >>
> >> No. I think Wu's patch may work well. But I agree Andrew.
> >> Couldn't we remove the too_many_isolated logic? If it is, we can solve
> >> the problem simply.
> >> But If we remove the logic, we will meet long time ago problem, again.
> >> So my patch's intention is to prevent OOM and deadlock problem with
> >> simple patch without adding new heuristic in too_many_isolated.
> >
> > But your patch is much false positive/negative chance because isolated pages timing
> > and too_many_isolated_zone() call site are in far distance place.
>
> Yes.
> How about the returning *did_some_progress can imply too_many_isolated
> fail by using MSB or new variable?
> Then, page_allocator can check it whether it causes read reclaim fail
> or parallel reclaim.
> The point is let's throttle without holding FS/IO lock.
Wu's version sleep in shrink_inactive_list(). your version sleep in __alloc_pages_slowpath()
by wait_iff_congested(). both don't release lock, I think.
But, if alloc_pages() return fail if GFP_NOIO, we introduce another issue.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 23:11 Neil Brown
2010-09-15 0:30 ` Rik van Riel
2010-09-15 2:23 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-15 2:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 2:54 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 3:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 3:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 3:18 ` Shaohua Li
2010-09-15 3:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 3:17 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-15 3:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 8:28 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-15 8:44 ` Neil Brown
2010-10-18 4:14 ` Neil Brown
2010-10-18 5:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-18 10:58 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-18 23:11 ` Neil Brown
2010-10-19 8:43 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-19 10:06 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-20 5:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-20 7:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-20 9:27 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-20 13:03 ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-22 5:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-22 8:07 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-22 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2010-10-24 16:52 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-25 6:40 ` Neil Brown
2010-10-25 7:26 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-20 7:25 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-20 9:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-20 10:07 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-20 14:23 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-20 15:35 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-20 23:31 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-18 16:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-18 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-18 22:31 ` Neil Brown
2010-10-18 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-19 0:57 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-19 1:15 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 1:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-19 1:32 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 2:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-19 2:16 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 2:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2010-10-19 2:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-19 2:52 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 3:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-19 3:09 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 3:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-19 5:11 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 3:21 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-19 7:15 ` Shaohua Li
2010-10-19 7:34 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-19 2:24 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-19 2:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-19 2:37 ` Minchan Kim
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