Re: [PATCH] page_frag: Recover from memory pressure

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 02:02:24PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 02:21:25PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On 11/5/20 5:21 AM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > > When the machine is under extreme memory pressure, the page_frag allocator
> > > signals this to the networking stack by marking allocations with the
> > > 'pfmemalloc' flag, which causes non-essential packets to be dropped.
> > > Unfortunately, even after the machine recovers from the low memory
> > > condition, the page continues to be used by the page_frag allocator,
> > > so all allocations from this page will continue to be dropped.
> > > 
> > > Fix this by freeing and re-allocating the page instead of recycling it.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Bert Barbe <bert.barbe@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Rama Nichanamatlu <rama.nichanamatlu@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Fixes: 79930f5892e ("net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve")
> > 
> > Your patch looks fine, although this Fixes: tag seems incorrect.
> > 
> > 79930f5892e ("net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve") was propagating
> > the page pfmemalloc status into the skb, and seems correct to me.
> > 
> > The bug was the page_frag_alloc() was keeping a problematic page for
> > an arbitrary period of time ?
> 
> Isn't this the commit which unmasks the problem, though?  I don't think
> it's the buggy commit, but if your tree doesn't have 79930f5892e, then
> you don't need this patch.
> 
> Or are you saying the problem dates back all the way to
> c93bdd0e03e8 ("netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves")
> 
> > > +		if (nc->pfmemalloc) {
> > 
> >                 if (unlikely(nc->pfmemalloc)) {
> 
> ACK.  Will make the change once we've settled on an appropriate Fixes tag.

Which commit should I claim this fixes?