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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: rientjes@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	mgorman@suse.de, hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:24:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160204142400.GC14425@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160204133905.GB14425@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Thu 04-02-16 14:39:05, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 04-02-16 22:10:54, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > I am not sure we can fix these pathological loads where we hit the
> > > higher order depletion and there is a chance that one of the thousands
> > > tasks terminates in an unpredictable way which happens to race with the
> > > OOM killer.
> > 
> > When I hit this problem on Dec 24th, I didn't run thousands of tasks.
> > I think there were less than one hundred tasks in the system and only
> > a few tasks were running. Not a pathological load at all.
> 
> But as the OOM report clearly stated there were no > order-1 pages
> available in that particular case. And that happened after the direct
> reclaim and compaction were already invoked.
> 
> As I've mentioned in the referenced email, we can try to do multiple
> retries e.g. do not give up on the higher order requests until we hit
> the maximum number of retries but I consider it quite ugly to be honest.
> I think that a proper communication with compaction is a more
> appropriate way to go long term. E.g. I find it interesting that
> try_to_compact_pages doesn't even care about PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
> and treat is as any other high order request.
> 
> Something like the following:

With the patch description. Please note I haven't tested this yet so
this is more a RFC than something I am really convinced about. I can
live with it because the number of retries is nicely bounded but it
sounds too hackish because it makes the decision rather blindly. I will
talk to Vlastimil and Mel whether they see some way how to communicate
the compaction state in a reasonable way. But I guess this is something
that can come up later. What do you think?
---

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-04 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 152+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-15 18:19 [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko
2015-12-15 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, oom: rework oom detection Michal Hocko
2016-01-14 22:58   ` David Rientjes
2016-01-16  1:07     ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-19 22:48       ` David Rientjes
2016-01-20 11:13         ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-20 13:13           ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-04  8:23   ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-04-04  9:42     ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-15 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty and writeback pages Michal Hocko
2016-03-17 11:35   ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-17 12:01     ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-15 18:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: use watermak checks for __GFP_REPEAT high order allocations Michal Hocko
2015-12-16 23:35 ` [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Andrew Morton
2015-12-18 12:12   ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-16 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-18 13:15   ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-18 16:35     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-12-24 12:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-12-28 12:08   ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-12-28 14:13     ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-06 12:44       ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-01-08 12:37       ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-29 16:32     ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-30 15:05       ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-02 15:47         ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-20 12:24           ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-27 23:18             ` David Rientjes
2016-01-28 21:19               ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-29 16:27   ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 20:40 ` [PATCH 4/3] mm, oom: drop the last allocation attempt before out_of_memory Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 21:36   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-01-28 23:19     ` David Rientjes
2016-01-28 23:51       ` Johannes Weiner
2016-01-29 10:39         ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-29 15:32         ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-30 12:18           ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-29 15:23       ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-29 15:24     ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 21:19 ` [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 23:20   ` David Rientjes
2016-01-29  3:41   ` Hillf Danton
2016-01-29 10:35   ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-01-29 15:17     ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-29 21:30       ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-03 13:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 22:58   ` David Rientjes
2016-02-04 12:57     ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 13:10       ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-04 13:39         ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 14:24           ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-02-07  4:09           ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-15 20:06             ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-16 13:10               ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-02-16 15:19                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-25  3:47   ` Hugh Dickins
2016-02-25  6:48     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-02-25  9:17       ` Hillf Danton
2016-02-25  9:27         ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-25  9:48           ` Hillf Danton
2016-02-25 11:02             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-02-25  9:23     ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-26  6:32       ` Hugh Dickins
2016-02-26  7:54         ` Hillf Danton
2016-02-26  9:24           ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-26 10:27             ` Hillf Danton
2016-02-26 13:49               ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-26  9:33         ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 21:02       ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-02  2:19         ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-02  9:50           ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-02 13:32             ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-02 14:06               ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-02 14:34                 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-03  9:26                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-03 10:29                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-03 14:10                     ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-03 15:25                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-04  5:23                         ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-04 15:15                           ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-04 17:39                             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-07  5:23                             ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-03 15:50                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-03 16:26                         ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-04  7:10                         ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-02 15:01             ` Minchan Kim
2016-03-07 16:08         ` [PATCH] mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more (was: Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4) Michal Hocko
2016-03-08  3:51           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-08  9:08             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08  9:24               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-08  9:24           ` [PATCH] mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-08  9:32             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-08  9:46             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08  9:52               ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-08 10:10                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 11:12                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-08 12:22                     ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 12:29                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-08  9:58           ` [PATCH] mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more (was: Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4) Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-03-08 13:57             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 10:36           ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-08 13:42           ` [PATCH 0/2] oom rework: high order enahncements Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 13:42             ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, compaction: change COMPACT_ constants into enum Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 14:19               ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-09  3:55               ` Hillf Danton
2016-03-08 13:42             ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, compaction: cover all compaction mode in compact_zone Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 14:22               ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-09  3:57               ` Hillf Danton
2016-03-08 13:42             ` [PATCH 3/3] mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 14:34               ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-08 14:48                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 15:03                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-09 11:11               ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-09 14:07                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-11 12:17                 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-11 13:06                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 19:08                     ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-14 16:21                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 15:19           ` [PATCH] mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more (was: Re: [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4) Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-08 16:05             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-08 17:03               ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-09 10:41                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 14:53                   ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-11 15:20                     ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-29 20:35     ` [PATCH 0/3] OOM detection rework v4 Michal Hocko
2016-03-01  7:29       ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-01 13:38         ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-01 14:40           ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-01 18:14           ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-02  2:55             ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-02 12:37               ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-02 14:06                 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-02 12:24             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-02 13:00               ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-02 13:22               ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-02  2:28           ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-02 12:39             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-03  9:54           ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-03 12:32             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-03 20:57               ` Hugh Dickins
2016-03-04  7:41                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-04  7:53             ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-03-04 12:28             ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 10:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-11 13:08   ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 13:32     ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-11 15:28       ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 16:49         ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-11 17:00           ` Michal Hocko
2016-03-11 17:20             ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-12  4:08               ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-03-13 14:41                 ` Tetsuo Handa

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