From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] do_try_to_free_pages() might enter infinite loop
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:45:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F96D8C1.2060705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F96D6EE.6000809@redhat.com>
(4/24/12 12:38 PM), Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 04/24/2012 12:36 PM, Ying Han wrote:
>
>> However, what if B frees a pages everytime before pages_scanned
>> reaches the point, then we won't set zone->all_unreclaimable at all.
>> If so, we reaches a livelock here...
>
> If B keeps freeing pages, surely A will get a successful
> allocation and there will not be a livelock?
And, I hope we distinguish true livelock and pseudo livelock at first.
Nick's patch definitely makes kernel slowdown when OOM situation. It is
intentional. We thought slowdown is better than false positive OOM even
though the slowdown is extream slow and similar to livelock.
Ying, Which problem do you want to discuss? a) current kernrel has true
live lock b) current oom detection is too slow and livelock like and it
is not acceptable to you.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 20:56 [RFC PATCH] do_try_to_free_pages() might enter infinite loop Ying Han
2012-04-23 22:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-23 23:18 ` Ying Han
2012-04-23 23:19 ` Ying Han
2012-04-24 1:31 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 2:06 ` Ying Han
2012-04-24 16:36 ` Ying Han
2012-04-24 16:38 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-24 16:45 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2012-04-24 17:22 ` Ying Han
2012-04-24 17:17 ` Ying Han
2012-04-24 5:36 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-24 18:37 ` Ying Han
2012-05-01 3:34 ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-01 16:18 ` Ying Han
2012-05-01 16:20 ` Ying Han
2012-05-01 17:06 ` Rik van Riel
2012-05-02 3:25 ` Nick Piggin
2012-06-11 23:33 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-11 23:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-14 5:25 ` Ying Han
2012-06-12 0:53 ` Rik van Riel
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