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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190808172725.GA16900@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 8/8/19 7:27 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:47:18PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 8/7/19 10:51 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: >>> From 9efda85451062dea4ea287a886e515efefeb1545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>> From: Johannes Weiner >>> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 13:15:16 -0400 >>> Subject: [PATCH] psi: trigger the OOM killer on severe thrashing >> >> Thanks a lot, perhaps finally we are going to eat the elephant ;) >> >> I've tested this by booting with mem=8G and activating browser tabs as >> long as I could. Then initially the system started thrashing and didn't >> recover for minutes. Then I realized sysrq+f is disabled... Fixed that >> up after next reboot, tried lower thresholds, also started monitoring >> /proc/pressure/memory, and found out that after minutes of not being >> able to move the cursor, both avg10 and avg60 shows only around 15 for >> both some and full. Lowered thrashing_oom_level to 10 and (with >> thrashing_oom_period of 5) the thrashing OOM finally started kicking, >> and the system recovered by itself in reasonable time. > > It sounds like there is a missing annotation. The time has to be going > somewhere, after all. One *known* missing vector I fixed recently is > stalls in submit_bio() itself when refaulting, but it's not merged > yet. Attaching the patch below, can you please test it? It made a difference, but not enough, it seems. Before the patch I could observe "io:full avg10" around 75% and "memory:full avg10" around 20%, after the patch, "memory:full avg10" went to around 45%, while io stayed the same (BTW should the refaults be discounted from the io counters, so that the sum is still <=100%?) As a result I could change the knobs to recover successfully with thrashing detected for 10s of 40% memory pressure. Perhaps being low on memory we can't detect refaults so well due to limited number of shadow entries, or there was genuine non-refault I/O in the mix. The detection would then probably have to look at both I/O and memory? Thanks, Vlastimil