From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: mm: mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer on i386 - pagecache_get_page
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 02:56:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529015644.GA84588@chrisdown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALOAHbAHGOsAUUM7qn=9L1u8kAf6Gztqt=SyHSmZ9XuYZWcKmg@mail.gmail.com>
Yafang Shao writes:
>Look at this patch[1] carefully you will find that it introduces the
>same issue that I tried to fix in another patch [2]. Even more sad is
>these two patches are in the same patchset. Although this issue isn't
>related with the issue found by Naresh, we have to ask ourselves why
>we always make the same mistake ?
>One possible answer is that we always forget the lifecyle of
>memory.emin before we read it. memory.emin doesn't have the same
>lifecycle with the memcg, while it really has the same lifecyle with
>the reclaimer. IOW, once a reclaimer begins the protetion value should
>be set to 0, and after we traversal the memcg tree we calculate a
>protection value for this reclaimer, finnaly it disapears after the
>reclaimer stops. That is why I highly suggest to add an new protection
>member in scan_control before.
I agree with you that the e{min,low} lifecycle is confusing for everyone -- the
only thing I've not seen confirmation of is any confirmed correlation with the
i386 oom killer issue. If you've validated that, I'd like to see the data :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-29 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 12:38 mm: mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer on i386 - pagecache_get_page Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-01 20:58 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-18 14:10 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-19 7:52 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-19 8:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-19 8:45 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-20 11:56 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-20 17:59 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-20 19:09 ` Chris Down
2020-05-21 9:22 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-21 9:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-21 9:55 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-21 10:41 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-21 10:58 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-21 12:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-05-21 12:44 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-21 19:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-21 20:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-05-21 21:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-21 23:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-05-28 14:59 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-21 16:34 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-21 19:00 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-21 20:53 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-28 15:03 ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-28 16:17 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-28 16:41 ` Chris Down
2020-05-29 1:50 ` Yafang Shao
2020-05-29 1:56 ` Chris Down [this message]
2020-05-29 9:49 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-11 9:55 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-12 9:43 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-06-12 12:09 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 13:37 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-06-17 13:57 ` Chris Down
2020-06-17 14:11 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 15:53 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-06-17 16:06 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 20:13 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-06-17 21:09 ` Chris Down
2020-06-18 1:43 ` Yafang Shao
2020-06-18 12:37 ` Chris Down
2020-06-18 12:41 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-18 12:49 ` Chris Down
2020-06-18 14:59 ` Yafang Shao
2020-06-17 13:59 ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 14:08 ` Chris Down
2020-05-21 2:39 ` Yafang Shao
2020-05-21 8:58 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-05-21 9:47 ` Yafang Shao
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