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From: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: lost connection to test machine (4)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:34:38 -0600
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Hi Eric,

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 05:35:26AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> Also I would consider using this fix as I had warnings of cpus being
> stuck there for more than 50 ms :
> 
> 
> diff --git a/mm/percpu-vm.c b/mm/percpu-vm.c
> index 9158e5a81391ced4e268e3d5dd9879c2bc7280ce..6309b01ceb357be01e857e5f899429403836f41f 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu-vm.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu-vm.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ static int pcpu_alloc_pages(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk,
>  			*pagep = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), gfp, 0);
>  			if (!*pagep)
>  				goto err;
> +			cond_resched();
>  		}
>  	}
>  	return 0;
> 
> 

This function gets called from pcpu_populate_chunk while holding the
pcpu_alloc_mutex and is called from two scenarios. First, when an
allocation occurs to a place without backing pages, and second when the
workqueue item is scheduled to replenish the number of empty pages. So,
I don't think this is a good idea.

My understanding is if we're seeing warnings here, that means we're
struggling to find backing pages. I believe adding __GFP_NORETRY on the
workqueue path as Tejun mentioned above would help with warnings as
well, but not if they are caused by the allocation path.

Thanks,
Dennis