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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, compaction: use MIN_COMPACT_COSTLY_PRIORITY everywhere for costly orders
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:44:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45eb7fdb-9390-74d7-6198-6d14a9c78939@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88e89521-9be2-3886-2155-c7f8d9c22bbb@suse.cz>

On 8/2/19 5:05 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
> On 8/1/19 10:33 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> On 8/1/19 6:01 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>> Could you try testing the patch below instead? It should hopefully
>>> eliminate the stalls. If it makes hugepage allocation give up too early,
>>> we'll know we have to involve __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL in allowing the
>>> MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY priority. Thanks!
>>
>> Thanks.  This patch does eliminate the stalls I was seeing.
>>
>> In my testing, there is little difference in how many hugetlb pages are
>> allocated.  It does not appear to be giving up/failing too early.  But,
>> this is only with __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL.  The real concern would with THP
>> requests.  Any suggestions on how to test that?
> 
> Here's the full patch, can you include it in your series?

Yes.  Thank you!

-- 
Mike Kravetz


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-02 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-24 17:50 [RFC PATCH 0/3] fix hugetlb page allocation stalls Mike Kravetz
2019-07-24 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, reclaim: make should_continue_reclaim perform dryrun detection Mike Kravetz
2019-07-25  8:05   ` Mel Gorman
2019-07-26  7:40     ` Hillf Danton
2019-07-26  8:12     ` Mel Gorman
2019-07-31 11:08     ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-07-31 12:25       ` Mel Gorman
2019-07-31 21:11       ` Mike Kravetz
2019-08-01  4:22         ` Hillf Danton
2019-08-01  8:44         ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-01  3:16       ` Hillf Danton
2019-07-24 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm, compaction: use MIN_COMPACT_COSTLY_PRIORITY everywhere for costly orders Mike Kravetz
2019-07-25  8:06   ` Mel Gorman
2019-07-31 12:06   ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-07-31 20:30     ` Mike Kravetz
2019-08-01 13:01       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-01 20:33         ` Mike Kravetz
2019-08-02 10:20           ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-02 12:05           ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-08-02 17:44             ` Mike Kravetz [this message]
2019-07-24 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] hugetlbfs: don't retry when pool page allocations start to fail Mike Kravetz
2019-07-25  8:13   ` Mel Gorman
2019-07-25 17:15     ` Mike Kravetz
2019-07-25 22:43       ` Mel Gorman
2019-07-31 13:23       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-07-31 21:13         ` Mike Kravetz

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