From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
<nholland@tisys.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <dsterba@suse.cz>,
<linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OOM: Better, but still there on
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 09:04:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161221140413.GA91507@clm-mbp.masoncoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161221111653.GF31118@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:16:53PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Wed 21-12-16 20:00:38, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
>One thing to note here, when we are talking about 32b kernel, things
>have changed in 4.8 when we moved from the zone based to node based
>reclaim (see b2e18757f2c9 ("mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a
>per-node basis") and associated patches). It is possible that the
>reporter is hitting some pathological path which needs fixing but it
>might be also related to something else. So I am rather not trying to
>blame 32b yet...
It might be interesting to put tracing on releasepage and see if btrfs
is pinning pages around. I can't see how 32bit kernels would be
different, but maybe we're hitting a weird corner.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 22:57 OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9 Nils Holland
2016-12-16 7:39 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 15:58 ` OOM: Better, but still there on Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, oom: do not enfore OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 17:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-12-16 22:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-17 11:17 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-18 16:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 18:47 ` OOM: Better, but still there on Nils Holland
2016-12-17 0:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-17 12:59 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-17 14:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-17 17:11 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-17 21:06 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-18 5:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-19 13:45 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 2:08 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-21 7:36 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 11:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-21 11:16 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 14:04 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2016-12-22 10:10 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-22 10:27 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-22 10:35 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-22 10:46 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-12-22 19:17 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-22 21:46 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-23 10:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 12:18 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-23 12:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 14:47 ` [RFC PATCH] mm, memcg: fix (Re: OOM: Better, but still there on) Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 22:26 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-26 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-26 18:57 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-27 8:08 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 11:23 ` Nils Holland
2016-12-27 11:27 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 15:55 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 16:28 ` [PATCH] mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count kbuild test robot
2016-12-28 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 19:33 ` [RFC PATCH] mm, memcg: fix (Re: OOM: Better, but still there on) Nils Holland
2016-12-28 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-29 1:20 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-29 9:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 2:05 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-30 10:40 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-29 0:31 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-29 0:48 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-29 8:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2016-12-30 11:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 12:43 ` Mel Gorman
2016-12-25 22:25 ` [lkp-developer] [mm, memcg] d18e2b2aca: WARNING:at_mm/memcontrol.c:#mem_cgroup_update_lru_size kernel test robot
2016-12-26 12:26 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-26 12:50 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-18 0:28 ` OOM: Better, but still there on Xin Zhou
2016-12-16 18:15 ` OOM: Better, but still there on 4.9 Chris Mason
2016-12-16 22:14 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 22:47 ` Chris Mason
2016-12-16 23:31 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-16 19:50 ` Chris Mason
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