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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] hugetlbfs: don't retry when pool page allocations start to fail
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 10:03:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c13c0c78-55d1-b2e2-c24b-897ce2469410@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806014744.15446-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

On 8/6/19 3:47 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> When allocating hugetlbfs pool pages via /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages,
> the pages will be interleaved between all nodes of the system.  If
> nodes are not equal, it is quite possible for one node to fill up
> before the others.  When this happens, the code still attempts to
> allocate pages from the full node.  This results in calls to direct
> reclaim and compaction which slow things down considerably.
> 
> When allocating pool pages, note the state of the previous allocation
> for each node.  If previous allocation failed, do not use the
> aggressive retry algorithm on successive attempts.  The allocation
> will still succeed if there is memory available, but it will not try
> as hard to free up memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Thanks.


      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-06  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06  1:47 [PATCH v2 0/4] address hugetlb page allocation stalls Mike Kravetz
2019-08-06  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm, reclaim: make should_continue_reclaim perform dryrun detection Mike Kravetz
2019-08-06  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm, reclaim: cleanup should_continue_reclaim() Mike Kravetz
2019-08-06  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm, compaction: raise compaction priority after it withdrawns Mike Kravetz
2019-08-06  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] hugetlbfs: don't retry when pool page allocations start to fail Mike Kravetz
2019-08-06  8:03   ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]

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