public inbox for linux-mm@kvack.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Spock <dairinin@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Memory management issue in 4.18.15
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:08:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181022150815.GA4287@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181022083322.GE32333@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:33:22AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Cc som more people.
> 
> I am wondering why 172b06c32b94 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a
> relatively small number of objects") has been backported to the stable
> tree when not marked that way. Put that aside it seems likely that the
> upstream kernel will have the same issue I suspect. Roman, could you
> have a look please?

Sure, already looking... Spock provided some useful details, and I think,
I know what's happening... Hope to propose a solution soon.

RE backporting: I'm slightly surprised that only one patch of the memcg
reclaim fix series has been backported. Either all or none makes much more
sense to me.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-22 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CADa=ObrwYaoNFn0x06mvv5W1F9oVccT5qjGM8qFBGNPoNuMUNw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-10-20 15:37 ` Memory management issue in 4.18.15 Randy Dunlap
2018-10-20 17:41   ` Roman Gushchin
2018-10-22  8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 15:08   ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2018-10-22 17:01     ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-25 11:26       ` Sasha Levin
2018-10-22 17:35   ` Roman Gushchin
2018-10-22 23:44   ` Roman Gushchin

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20181022150815.GA4287@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com \
    --to=guro@fb.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=alexander.levin@microsoft.com \
    --cc=dairinin@gmail.com \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=hannes@cmpxchg.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mhocko@kernel.org \
    --cc=riel@surriel.com \
    --cc=shakeelb@google.com \
    --cc=vdavydov.dev@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox