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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: lkml@pengaru.com
Cc: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Still OOM problems with 4.9er/4.10er kernels
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:08:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170316090844.GG30501@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316084733.GP802@shells.gnugeneration.com>

On Thu 16-03-17 01:47:33, lkml@pengaru.com wrote:
[...]
> While on the topic of understanding allocation stalls, Philip Freeman recently
> mailed linux-kernel with a similar report, and in his case there are plenty of
> page cache pages.  It was also a GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE 0-order allocation.

care to point me to the report?
 
> I'm no MM expert, but it appears a bit broken for such a low-order allocation
> to stall on the order of 10 seconds when there's plenty of reclaimable pages,
> in addition to mostly unused and abundant swap space on SSD.

yes this might indeed signal a problem.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: lkml@pengaru.com
Cc: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Still OOM problems with 4.9er/4.10er kernels
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:08:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170316090844.GG30501@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316084733.GP802@shells.gnugeneration.com>

On Thu 16-03-17 01:47:33, lkml@pengaru.com wrote:
[...]
> While on the topic of understanding allocation stalls, Philip Freeman recently
> mailed linux-kernel with a similar report, and in his case there are plenty of
> page cache pages.  It was also a GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE 0-order allocation.

care to point me to the report?
 
> I'm no MM expert, but it appears a bit broken for such a low-order allocation
> to stall on the order of 10 seconds when there's plenty of reclaimable pages,
> in addition to mostly unused and abundant swap space on SSD.

yes this might indeed signal a problem.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-16  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-30  7:10 Still OOM problems with 4.9er kernels Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-11-30  7:20 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09  7:06   ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 13:40     ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-09 13:40       ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-09 15:52       ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 15:52         ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 15:58         ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 15:58           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 16:09         ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-09 16:09           ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-09 16:58           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 17:30             ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-09 17:30               ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-09 18:01               ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 18:01                 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 21:42                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-12-09 21:42                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-12-10 13:50                   ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-10 13:50                     ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-12  8:24                     ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-12  8:24                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23  2:55         ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-23  2:55           ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-01 17:20           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-01-01 17:20             ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-01-04  8:40           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-01-04  9:11             ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-04  9:11               ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-26  8:40               ` Still OOM problems with 4.9er/4.10er kernels Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-02-27  8:27                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-27  8:27                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-28  6:06                   ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-02-28  6:06                     ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-02-28  8:14                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-28  8:14                       ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-27  9:02                 ` Minchan Kim
2017-02-27  9:02                   ` Minchan Kim
2017-02-27  9:44                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-27  9:44                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-28  5:17                     ` Minchan Kim
2017-02-28  5:17                       ` Minchan Kim
2017-02-28  8:12                       ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-28  8:12                         ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-02  7:17                         ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-02  7:17                           ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-16  6:38                           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-16  6:38                             ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-16  8:27                             ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-16  8:27                               ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-16  8:47                               ` lkml
2017-03-16  8:47                                 ` lkml
2017-03-16  9:08                                 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-03-16  9:08                                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-16  9:23                                   ` lkml
2017-03-16  9:23                                     ` lkml
2017-03-16  9:39                                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-16  9:39                                       ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-17 16:37                                       ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-17 16:37                                         ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-17 17:13                                         ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-17 17:13                                           ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-17 20:08                                           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-17 20:08                                             ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-19  8:17                                             ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-19  8:17                                               ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-20  1:54                                               ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-03-20  1:54                                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-03-19 15:18                                             ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-19 15:18                                               ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-19 16:02                                               ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-19 16:02                                                 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-20  3:05                                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-20  3:05                                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-21  5:59                                                   ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-21  5:59                                                     ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-21  7:13                                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-21  7:13                                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-23  7:16                                                       ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-23  7:16                                                         ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-23  8:38                                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-23  8:38                                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2017-03-23 14:46                                                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-03-23 14:46                                                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-03-26  8:36                                                           ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2017-03-26  8:36                                                             ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 16:03       ` Still OOM problems with 4.9er kernels Gerhard Wiesinger
2016-12-09 16:03         ` Gerhard Wiesinger

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