From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
mhocko@suse.cz, dchinner@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
rientjes@google.com, oleg@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls?
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:38:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150304173841.GB15669@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150304150436.GA16442@phnom.home.cmpxchg.org>
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:04:36AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Yes, we can make this work if you can tell us which allocations have
> limited/controllable lifetime.
It may be helpful to be a bit precise about definitions here. There
are a number of different object lifetimes:
a) will be released before the kernel thread returns control to
userspace
b) will be released once the current I/O operation finishes. (In the
case of nbd where the remote server has unexpectedy gone away might be
quite a while, but I'm not sure how much we care about that scenario)
c) can be trivially released if the mm subsystem asks via calling a
shrinker
d) can be released only after doing some amount of bounded work (i.e.,
cleaning a dirty page)
e) impossible to predict when it can be released (e.g., dcache, inodes
attached to an open file descriptors, buffer heads that won't be freed
until the file system is umounted, etc.)
I'm guessing that what you mean is (b), but what about cases such as
(c)?
Would the mm subsystem find it helpful if it had more information
about object lifetime? For example, the CMA folks seem to really care
about know whether memory allocations falls in category (e) or not.
- Ted
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Thread overview: 177+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-12 13:54 [RFC PATCH] oom: Don't count on mm-less current process Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-16 12:47 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-17 11:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-17 13:08 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-18 12:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-18 15:33 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-19 12:07 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-19 12:49 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-20 9:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-20 11:42 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-22 20:25 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-23 1:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 9:51 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-23 11:46 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 11:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 12:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 12:27 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-23 12:24 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-23 13:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 13:09 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-23 13:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 13:43 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-23 14:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-23 14:57 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-19 12:22 ` How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls? Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-20 2:03 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-20 12:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-20 22:35 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-21 8:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-21 20:42 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-22 16:57 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-22 21:30 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-23 9:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-12-24 1:06 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-24 2:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-29 18:19 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-30 6:42 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-30 11:21 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-30 13:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2014-12-31 10:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-09 11:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-10 13:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-10 15:19 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-11 2:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-11 13:37 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-11 18:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-11 18:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-03-14 13:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-17 12:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-17 12:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-17 15:38 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-17 22:54 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-17 23:32 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-18 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-18 10:48 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-18 12:16 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-18 21:31 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-19 9:40 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-19 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-20 9:27 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-19 11:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-19 12:29 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-19 12:58 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-19 15:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-19 21:53 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-20 9:13 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-20 13:37 ` Stefan Ring
2015-02-19 13:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-20 9:10 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-20 12:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-20 12:38 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-19 21:43 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-20 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-20 23:09 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-19 10:24 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-19 22:52 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-20 10:36 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-20 23:15 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-21 3:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-21 9:19 ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-21 13:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-21 21:38 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-22 0:20 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-23 10:48 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-23 11:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-23 21:33 ` David Rientjes
2015-02-22 14:48 ` __GFP_NOFAIL and oom_killer_disabled? Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-23 10:21 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-23 13:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-24 18:14 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-25 11:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-25 16:02 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-25 21:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-25 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-21 12:00 ` How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls? Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-23 10:26 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-21 11:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-21 21:48 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-21 23:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-23 0:45 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-23 1:29 ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-23 7:32 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-27 18:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-28 0:03 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-28 15:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-03-02 9:39 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-02 22:31 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-03 9:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-04 1:33 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-04 8:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-04 11:03 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-07 0:20 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-07 3:43 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-07 15:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-02 20:22 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-02 23:12 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-03 2:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-04 6:52 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-04 15:04 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-04 17:38 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-03-04 23:17 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-28 16:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-28 16:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-28 22:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-01 11:17 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-06 11:53 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-01 13:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-03-01 16:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-01 19:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-03-01 20:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-01 20:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-01 21:48 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-02 0:17 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-02 12:46 ` Brian Foster
2015-02-28 18:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-02 15:18 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-02 16:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-02 17:10 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-02 17:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-03-02 16:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-03-02 16:58 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-04 12:52 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-17 14:59 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-17 14:50 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-17 14:37 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-17 14:44 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-16 11:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-16 15:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-17 11:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-17 13:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-02-17 16:50 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-17 23:25 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-18 8:48 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-18 11:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-18 12:29 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-18 14:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-18 14:25 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-19 10:48 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-20 8:26 ` Michal Hocko
2015-02-23 22:08 ` David Rientjes
2015-02-24 11:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-24 15:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-24 21:02 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-25 14:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-27 7:39 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-27 12:42 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-02-27 13:12 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-04 12:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-04 13:25 ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-04 14:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-05 1:36 ` Dave Chinner
2015-02-17 16:33 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-29 17:40 ` [PATCH] mm: get rid of radix tree gfp mask for pagecache_get_page (was: Re: How to handle TIF_MEMDIE stalls?) Michal Hocko
2014-12-29 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-29 19:33 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-30 13:42 ` Michal Hocko
2014-12-30 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
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