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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181114093720.GI23419@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.32]); Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Failing on ENOMEM is a questionable thing. I haven't seen that happening >>> wildly but if it is a case then I wouldn't be opposed. >>> >>>> You mentioned memory pressure, if our host is under memory pressure we >>>> can easily trigger running into an endless loop there, because we >>>> basically ignore -ENOMEM e.g. when we cannot get a page to migrate some >>>> memory to be offlined. I assume this is the case here. >>>> do_migrate_range() could be the bad boy if it keeps failing forever and >>>> we keep retrying. >> >> I've seen quite some issues while playing with virtio-mem, but didn't >> have the time to look into the details. Still on my long list of things >> to look into. > > Memory hotplug is really far away from being optimal and robust. This > has always been the case. Issues used to be workaround by retry limits > etc. If we ever want to make it more robust we have to bite a bullet and > actually chase all the issues that might be basically anywhere and fix > them. This is just a nature of a pony that memory hotplug is. > Yes I agree, no more workarounds. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb