From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com,
oleg@redhat.com, kwalker@redhat.com, cl@linux.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
vdavydov@parallels.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skozina@redhat.com,
mgorman@suse.de, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Silent hang up caused by pages being not scanned?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:57:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151019125729.GG11998@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201510170349.FFE52187.OOSJFMOVHQFtLF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Sat 17-10-15 03:49:39, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Tetsuo, mind trying it out and maybe tweaking it a bit for the load
> > you have? Does it seem to improve on your situation?
>
> Yes, I already tried it and just replied to Michal.
>
> I tested for one hour using various memory stressing programs.
> As far as I tested, I did not hit silent hang up (
Thank you for your testing!
[...]
> Only problem I felt is that the ratio of inactive_file/writeback
> (shown below) was high (compared to shown above) when I did
Yes this is the lack of congestion on the bdi as Linus expected.
Another patch I've just posted should help in that regards. At least it
seems to help in my testing.
[...]
> I can still hit OOM livelock (
>
> MemAlloc-Info: X stalling task, Y dying task, Z victim task.
>
> where X > 0 && Y > 0).
This seems a separate issue, though.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-19 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 17:59 [PATCH] mm/oom_kill.c: don't kill TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks Kyle Walker
2015-09-17 19:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 15:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 16:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 16:39 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-18 16:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 17:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 19:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-18 19:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-18 21:28 ` Kyle Walker
2015-09-18 22:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-09-19 8:32 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-19 14:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-19 15:51 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 23:33 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-22 5:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 23:32 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-23 12:03 ` Kyle Walker
2015-09-24 11:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-19 14:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 23:27 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-19 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-19 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 23:08 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-19 15:03 ` can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory? Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 15:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 15:58 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-20 13:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-19 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-19 22:54 ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-19 23:00 ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-19 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 9:33 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-20 13:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-20 12:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-20 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 18:21 ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-20 18:23 ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-20 19:07 ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-21 13:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 13:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 14:24 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 15:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 16:12 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-22 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-22 23:04 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-23 20:59 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-24 21:15 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-25 9:35 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-25 16:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 16:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 22:28 ` David Rientjes
2015-10-02 12:36 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-02 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-05 14:44 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-07 5:16 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-07 10:43 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-08 9:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-06 7:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-06 8:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-06 8:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-06 14:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-03 6:02 ` Can't we use timeout based OOM warning/killing? Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-06 14:51 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 6:43 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 15:25 ` Silent hang up caused by pages being not scanned? Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-12 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-13 12:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-13 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-14 12:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-15 13:14 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-16 15:57 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-16 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-16 18:49 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-19 12:57 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-10-19 12:53 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-13 13:32 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-13 16:19 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-14 13:22 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-14 14:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-14 14:59 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-14 15:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-26 11:44 ` Newbie's question: memory allocation when reclaiming memory Tetsuo Handa
2015-11-05 8:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-06 15:25 ` Can't we use timeout based OOM warning/killing? Linus Torvalds
2015-10-08 15:33 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-10 12:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-28 22:24 ` can't oom-kill zap the victim's memory? David Rientjes
2015-09-29 7:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-29 22:56 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-30 4:25 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 10:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-30 21:11 ` David Rientjes
2015-10-01 12:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-01 14:48 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-02 13:06 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-06 18:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-07 11:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-10-07 12:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-08 14:04 ` Michal Hocko
2015-10-08 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2015-09-21 16:51 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 12:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-22 14:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-22 14:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-09-21 23:42 ` David Rientjes
2015-09-21 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-20 14:50 ` Tetsuo Handa
2015-09-20 14:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-10-14 8:03 Silent hang up caused by pages being not scanned? Hillf Danton
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