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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190417092318.GG655@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/17/19 2:23 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: >> 3. The demotion path can not have cycles > yes. This could be achieved by GFP_NOWAIT opportunistic allocation for > the migration target. That should prevent from loops or artificial nodes > exhausting quite naturaly AFAICS. Maybe we will need some tricks to > raise the watermark but I am not convinced something like that is really > necessary. I don't think GFP_NOWAIT alone is good enough. Let's say we have a system full of clean page cache and only two nodes: 0 and 1. GFP_NOWAIT will eventually kick off kswapd on both nodes. Each kswapd will be migrating pages to the *other* node since each is in the other's fallback path. I think what you're saying is that, eventually, the kswapds will see allocation failures and stop migrating, providing hysteresis. This is probably true. But, I'm more concerned about that window where the kswapds are throwing pages at each other because they're effectively just wasting resources in this window. I guess we should figure our how large this window is and how fast (or if) the dampening occurs in practice.