From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: js1304@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:57:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57346F98.3040401@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462252984-8524-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
On 05/03/2016 07:23 AM, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
> Currently, we store each page's allocation stacktrace on corresponding
> page_ext structure and it requires a lot of memory. This causes the problem
> that memory tight system doesn't work well if page_owner is enabled.
> Moreover, even with this large memory consumption, we cannot get full
> stacktrace because we allocate memory at boot time and just maintain
> 8 stacktrace slots to balance memory consumption. We could increase it
> to more but it would make system unusable or change system behaviour.
>
> To solve the problem, this patch uses stackdepot to store stacktrace.
FTR, this sounds useful and I've read your discussion with Michal, so
I'll wait for the next version.
Thanks
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-03 5:22 [PATCH 0/6] mm/page_owner: use tackdepot " js1304
2016-05-03 5:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/compaction: split freepages without holding the zone lock js1304
2016-05-10 14:56 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-05-12 2:51 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_owner: initialize page owner " js1304
2016-05-10 15:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_owner: copy last_migrate_reason in copy_page_owner() js1304
2016-05-10 15:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-05-12 2:58 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-12 6:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_owner: introduce split_page_owner and replace manual handling js1304
2016-05-10 15:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] tools/vm/page_owner: increase temporary buffer size js1304
2016-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace js1304
2016-05-03 8:53 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-04 2:14 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-04 2:35 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-04 9:23 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-04 15:31 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-04 9:21 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-04 15:30 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-04 15:45 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-04 19:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-04 19:40 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-10 7:07 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-05-10 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-12 11:57 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
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