From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Zhmurov <bb@kernelpanic.ru>,
Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 05:52:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161202135216.GJ3924@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161202093734.GE6830@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:37:35AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 01-12-16 21:10:01, Boris Zhmurov wrote:
> > Michal Hocko 30/11/16 21:25:
> >
> > >>> Do I get it right that s@cond_resched_rcu_qs@cond_resched@ didn't help?
> > >>
> > >> I didn't try that. I've tried 4 patches from Paul's linux-rcu tree.
> > >> I can try another portion of patches, no problem :)
> > >
> > > Replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched would
> > > be really helpful to tell whether we are missing a real scheduling point
> > > or whether something more serious is going on here.
> >
> > Well, I can confirm, that replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in
> > shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched also makes dmesg clean from RCU CPU
> > stall warnings.
> >
> > I've attached patch (just modification of Paul's patch), that fixes RCU
> > stall messages in situations, when all memory is used by
> > couchbase/memcached + fs cache and linux starts to use swap.
>
> OK, thanks for the confirmation! I will send a patch because it is true
> that we do not have any scheduling point if no pages can be isolated
> fromm the LRU. This might be what you are seeing.
Thank you both!
Thanx, Paul
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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Zhmurov <bb@kernelpanic.ru>,
Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 05:52:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161202135216.GJ3924@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161202093734.GE6830@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:37:35AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 01-12-16 21:10:01, Boris Zhmurov wrote:
> > Michal Hocko 30/11/16 21:25:
> >
> > >>> Do I get it right that s@cond_resched_rcu_qs@cond_resched@ didn't help?
> > >>
> > >> I didn't try that. I've tried 4 patches from Paul's linux-rcu tree.
> > >> I can try another portion of patches, no problem :)
> > >
> > > Replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched would
> > > be really helpful to tell whether we are missing a real scheduling point
> > > or whether something more serious is going on here.
> >
> > Well, I can confirm, that replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in
> > shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched also makes dmesg clean from RCU CPU
> > stall warnings.
> >
> > I've attached patch (just modification of Paul's patch), that fixes RCU
> > stall messages in situations, when all memory is used by
> > couchbase/memcached + fs cache and linux starts to use swap.
>
> OK, thanks for the confirmation! I will send a patch because it is true
> that we do not have any scheduling point if no pages can be isolated
> fromm the LRU. This might be what you are seeing.
Thank you both!
Thanx, Paul
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2016-11-28 14:40 ` INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Boris Zhmurov
2016-11-28 15:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-28 19:16 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-11-29 18:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:41 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-11-30 17:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 18:12 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-11-30 18:25 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 18:26 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-12-01 18:10 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-12-01 19:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 19:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 9:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-02 9:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-02 13:52 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2016-12-02 13:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 16:39 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-12-02 16:39 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-12-02 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 17:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-02 17:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-02 17:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 17:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 19:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
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2016-11-08 12:22 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-08 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-08 17:38 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-08 18:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-16 17:01 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-16 17:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-21 13:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-21 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-21 14:18 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-21 14:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-21 15:35 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-24 10:15 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-24 18:50 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-27 9:37 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-27 5:32 ` Christopher S. Aker
2016-11-27 9:19 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-28 11:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-28 12:26 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-28 12:26 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-30 10:28 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-30 10:28 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-30 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 11:43 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-30 11:43 ` Donald Buczek
2016-12-02 9:14 ` Donald Buczek
2016-12-02 9:14 ` Donald Buczek
2016-12-06 8:32 ` Donald Buczek
2016-12-06 8:32 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-30 11:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 11:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 11:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 11:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 12:31 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-30 12:31 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-30 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 13:19 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 13:19 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 14:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 14:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-30 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-30 17:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 17:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 17:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 17:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-30 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-30 19:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 19:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 5:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 5:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 16:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 16:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 18:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 18:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 18:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 18:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 18:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
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