Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752675AbcCHN5T (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:57:19 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:36834 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbcCHN5D (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:57:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:57:01 +0100 From: Michal Hocko To: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , Tetsuo Handa , Hillf Danton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Joonsoo Kim , Vlastimil Babka Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more (was: Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4) Message-ID: <20160308135700.GH13542@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1450203586-10959-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <20160203132718.GI6757@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160225092315.GD17573@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160229210213.GX16930@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160307160838.GB5028@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20160308095824.GA457@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160308095824.GA457@swordfish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1592 Lines: 47 On Tue 08-03-16 18:58:24, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (03/07/16 17:08), Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Mon 29-02-16 22:02:13, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > could you queue this one as well, please? This is more a band aid than a > > > real solution which I will be working on as soon as I am able to > > > reproduce the issue but the patch should help to some degree at least. > > > > Joonsoo wasn't very happy about this approach so let me try a different > > way. What do you think about the following? Hugh, Sergey does it help > > for your load? I have tested it with the Hugh's load and there was no > > major difference from the previous testing so at least nothing has blown > > up as I am not able to reproduce the issue here. > > > > Other changes in the compaction are still needed but I would like to not > > depend on them right now. > > works fine for me. > > $ cat /proc/vmstat | egrep -e "compact|swap" > pgsteal_kswapd_dma 7 > pgsteal_kswapd_dma32 6457075 > pgsteal_kswapd_normal 1462767 > pgsteal_kswapd_movable 0 > pgscan_kswapd_dma 18 > pgscan_kswapd_dma32 6544126 > pgscan_kswapd_normal 1495604 > pgscan_kswapd_movable 0 > kswapd_inodesteal 29 > kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 1168 > kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 1627 > compact_migrate_scanned 5762793 > compact_free_scanned 54090239 > compact_isolated 1303895 > compact_stall 1542 > compact_fail 1117 > compact_success 425 > compact_kcompatd_wake 0 > > no OOM-kills after 6 rounds of tests. > > Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Thanks for retesting! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs