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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, ying.huang@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm: fix OOMs for binding workloads to movable zone only node
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 08:58:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201104075819.GA10052@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201104073826.GA15700@shbuild999.sh.intel.com>

On Wed 04-11-20 15:38:26, Feng Tang wrote:
[...]
> > Could you be more specific about the usecase here? Why do you need a
> > binding to a pure movable node? 
> 
> One common configuration for a platform is small size of DRAM plus huge
> size of PMEM (which is slower but cheaper), and my guess of their use
> is to try to lead the bulk of user space allocation (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE)
> to PMEM node, and only let DRAM be used as less as possible. 

While this is possible, it is a tricky configuration. It is essentially 
get us back to 32b and highmem...

As I've said in reply to your second patch. I think we can make the oom
killer behavior more sensible in this misconfigured cases but I do not
think we want break the cpuset isolation for such a configuration.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-04  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-04  6:10 [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm: fix OOMs for binding workloads to movable zone only node Feng Tang
2020-11-04  6:10 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, oom: dump meminfo for all memory nodes Feng Tang
2020-11-04  7:18   ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-04  6:10 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm, page_alloc: loose the node binding check to avoid helpless oom killing Feng Tang
2020-11-04  7:23   ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-04  7:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm: fix OOMs for binding workloads to movable zone only node Michal Hocko
2020-11-04  7:38   ` Feng Tang
2020-11-04  7:58     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-11-04  8:40       ` Feng Tang
2020-11-04  8:53         ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-05  1:40           ` Feng Tang
2020-11-05 12:08             ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-05 12:53               ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-05 12:58                 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-05 13:07                   ` Feng Tang
2020-11-05 13:12                     ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-05 13:43                       ` Feng Tang
2020-11-05 16:16                         ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-06  7:06                           ` Feng Tang
2020-11-06  8:10                             ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-06  9:08                               ` Feng Tang
2020-11-06 10:35                                 ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-05 13:14                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-05 13:19                     ` Michal Hocko
2020-11-05 13:34                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-06  4:32               ` Huang, Ying
2020-11-06  7:43                 ` Michal Hocko

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