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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: vmscan: Do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:19:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110714061915.GN7529@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110714103801.83e10fdb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:38:01AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > @@ -825,6 +825,15 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
> >  		if (PageDirty(page)) {
> >  			nr_dirty++;
> >  
> > +			/*
> > +			 * Only kswapd can writeback filesystem pages to
> > +			 * avoid risk of stack overflow
> > +			 */
> > +			if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !current_is_kswapd()) {
> > +				inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_VMSCAN_WRITE_SKIP);
> > +				goto keep_locked;
> > +			}
> > +
> 
> 
> This will cause tons of memcg OOM kill because we have no help of kswapd (now).
> 
> Could you make this
> 
> 	if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && page_is_file_cache(page) && !current_is_kswapd())
> ...
> 

I can, but as Christoph points out, the request is already being
ignored so how will it help?

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-13 14:31 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim (again) Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 14:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: vmscan: Do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 23:34   ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  6:17     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-14  1:38   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-07-14  4:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-14  4:46       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-07-14 15:07         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-14 23:55           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-07-15  2:22         ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-18  2:22           ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-18  3:06             ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  6:19     ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2011-07-14  6:17       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-07-13 14:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: vmscan: Do not writeback filesystem pages in kswapd except in high priority Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 23:37   ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  6:29     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-14 11:52       ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14 13:17         ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-15  3:12           ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-13 14:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: vmscan: Throttle reclaim if encountering too many dirty pages under writeback Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 23:41   ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  6:33     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 14:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: vmscan: Immediately reclaim end-of-LRU dirty pages when writeback completes Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 16:40   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-07-13 17:15     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 14:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: writeback: Prioritise dirty inodes encountered by direct reclaim for background flushing Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 21:39   ` Jan Kara
2011-07-14  0:09     ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  7:03     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 23:56   ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  7:30     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-14 15:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-14 15:49     ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-13 15:31 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim (again) Mel Gorman
2011-07-14  0:33 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-14  4:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-14  7:37   ` Mel Gorman

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