linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: make unreserve highatomic functions reliable
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:48:38 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161012074838.GA7688@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161012073328.GC9504@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 12-10-16 14:33:36, Minchan Kim wrote:
> [...]
> > @@ -2138,8 +2146,10 @@ static bool unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac)
> >  			 */
> >  			set_pageblock_migratetype(page, ac->migratetype);
> >  			ret = move_freepages_block(zone, page, ac->migratetype);
> > -			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> > -			return ret;
> > +			if (!drain && ret) {
> > +				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> > +				return ret;
> > +			}
> 
> I've already mentioned that during the previous discussion. This sounds

Yeb, we did but I sent wrong version in my git tree. :(

> overly aggressive to me. Why do we want to drain the whole reserve and
> risk that we won't be able to build up a new one after OOM. Doing one
> block at the time should be sufficient IMHO.

I will resend with updating with every reveiw points.

Thanks.

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-12  5:33 [PATCH v2 0/4] use up highorder free pages before OOM Minchan Kim
2016-10-12  5:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: don't steal highatomic pageblock Minchan Kim
2016-10-12  5:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: prevent double decrease of nr_reserved_highatomic Minchan Kim
2016-10-12  5:33 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: try to exhaust highatomic reserve before the OOM Minchan Kim
2016-10-12  7:14   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-10-12  7:24   ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-12  5:33 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: make unreserve highatomic functions reliable Minchan Kim
2016-10-12  7:19   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-10-12  7:33   ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-12  7:48     ` Minchan Kim [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20161012074838.GA7688@bbox \
    --to=minchan@kernel.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mgorman@techsingularity.net \
    --cc=mhocko@kernel.org \
    --cc=sangseok.lee@lge.com \
    --cc=vbabka@suse.cz \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox