From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Cc: ;, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Stop kswapd early when nothing's waiting for it to free pages
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:22:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200221182201.GB4462@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200221043052.3305-1-sultan@kerneltoast.com>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 08:30:52PM -0800, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> From: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
[snip]
> @@ -4640,9 +4647,12 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
> goto retry;
> }
> fail:
> - warn_alloc(gfp_mask, ac->nodemask,
> - "page allocation failure: order:%u", order);
> got_pg:
I have no insight into if this is masking a deeper problem or if this fixes
something but doesn't the above result in 'fail' and 'got_pg' being the same
label?
Ira
> + if (woke_kswapd)
> + atomic_dec(&pgdat->kswapd_waiters);
> + if (!page)
> + warn_alloc(gfp_mask, ac->nodemask,
> + "page allocation failure: order:%u", order);
> return page;
> }
[snip]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-21 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-19 18:25 [PATCH] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-19 19:13 ` Dave Hansen
2020-02-19 19:40 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-19 20:05 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-19 20:42 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-19 21:45 ` Mel Gorman
2020-02-19 22:42 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-20 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2020-02-21 4:22 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-21 8:07 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20200221210824.GA3605@sultan-book.localdomain>
2020-02-21 21:24 ` Dave Hansen
2020-02-25 9:09 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-25 17:12 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-26 9:05 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-25 22:30 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-26 9:08 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-26 17:00 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-26 17:41 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-26 10:51 ` Hillf Danton
2020-02-26 17:04 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-27 1:48 ` Hillf Danton
2020-02-21 18:04 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-21 20:06 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-20 8:29 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-19 19:26 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-19 22:45 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-19 19:35 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 4:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Sultan Alsawaf
2020-02-21 18:22 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2020-02-21 20:00 ` Sultan Alsawaf
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