From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, thp: always direct reclaim for MADV_HUGEPAGE even when deferred
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:08:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161230140839.qg3maz4ifyf7nwgq@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161230125615.GH13301@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 30-12-16 12:36:20, Mel Gorman wrote:
> [...]
> > I'll neither ack nor nak this patch. However, I would much prefer an
> > additional option be added to sysfs called defer-fault that would avoid
> > all fault-based stalls but still potentially stall for MADV_HUGEPAGE.
>
> Would you consider changing the semantic of defer=madvise to invoke
> KSWAPD for !madvised vmas as acceptable. It would be a change in
> semantic but I am wondering what would be a risk and potential
> regression space.
>
I'd worry a little, but not a lot. The concern would be that kswapd waking
up would reclaim pages and cause major faults that would have remained
resident with the current semantics.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-22 0:21 [patch] mm, thp: always direct reclaim for MADV_HUGEPAGE even when deferred David Rientjes
2016-12-22 8:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-22 10:00 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-22 21:05 ` David Rientjes
2016-12-23 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 10:01 ` David Rientjes
2016-12-23 11:18 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 22:46 ` David Rientjes
2016-12-26 9:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 0:53 ` David Rientjes
2016-12-27 2:32 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-27 9:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-27 21:36 ` David Rientjes
2016-12-28 8:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-28 21:33 ` David Rientjes
2016-12-29 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 12:36 ` Mel Gorman
2016-12-30 12:56 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-30 14:08 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2016-12-30 22:30 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-03 10:37 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-03 21:57 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-04 10:12 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-04 21:53 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-02 8:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-03 22:44 ` David Rientjes
2017-01-04 8:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-04 9:46 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-04 22:04 ` David Rientjes
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