From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Matthias Dahl <ml_linux-kernel@binary-island.eu>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failures/OOM with dm-crypt on software RAID10 (Intel Rapid Storage)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:21:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160713112126.GH28723@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459d501038de4d25db6d140ac5ea5f8d@mail.ud19.udmedia.de>
On Tue 12-07-16 16:56:32, Matthias Dahl wrote:
> Hello Michal...
>
> On 2016-07-12 16:07, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > /proc/slabinfo could at least point on who is eating that memory.
>
> Thanks. I have made another test (and thus again put the RAID10 out of
> sync for the 100th time, sigh) and made regular snapshots of slabinfo
> which I have attached to this mail.
>
> > Direct IO doesn't get throttled like buffered IO.
>
> Is buffered i/o not used in both cases if I don't explicitly request
> direct i/o?
>
> dd if=/dev/zero /dev/md126p5 bs=512K
> and dd if=/dev/zero /dev/mapper/test-device bs=512K
OK, I misunderstood your question though. You were mentioning the direct
IO earlier so I thought you were referring to it here as well.
> Given that the test-device is dm-crypt on md125p5. Aren't both using
> buffered i/o?
Yes they are.
> > the number of pages under writeback was more or less same throughout
> > the time but there are some local fluctuations when some pages do get
> > completed.
>
> The pages under writeback are those directly destined for the disk, so
> after dm-crypt had done its encryption?
Those are submitted for the IO. dm-crypt will allocate a "shadow" page
for each of them to perform the encryption and only then submit the IO
to the storage underneath see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1607121907160.24806@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com
> > If not you can enable allocator trace point for a particular object
> > size (or range of sizes) and see who is requesting them.
>
> If that support is baked into the Fedora provided kernel that is. If
> you could give me a few hints or pointers, how to properly do a allocator
> trace point and get some decent data out of it, that would be nice.
You need to have a kernel with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS and then enable them
via debugfs. You are interested in kmalloc tracepoint and specify a size
as a filter to only see those that are really interesting. I haven't
checked your slabinfo yet - hope to get to it later today.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-13 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-12 8:27 Page Allocation Failures/OOM with dm-crypt on software RAID10 (Intel Rapid Storage) Matthias Dahl
2016-07-12 9:50 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-12 11:28 ` Matthias Dahl
2016-07-12 11:49 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-12 11:59 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-12 12:42 ` Matthias Dahl
2016-07-12 14:07 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-12 14:56 ` Matthias Dahl
2016-07-13 11:21 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-07-13 12:18 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-13 13:18 ` Matthias Dahl
2016-07-13 13:47 ` Michal Hocko
2016-07-13 15:32 ` Matthias Dahl
2016-07-13 16:24 ` [dm-devel] " Ondrej Kozina
2016-07-13 18:24 ` Matthias Dahl
2016-07-14 11:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-07-15 7:11 ` Page Allocation Failures/OOM with dm-crypt on software RAID10 (Intel Rapid Storage) with check/repair/sync Matthias Dahl
2016-07-18 7:24 ` Matthias Dahl
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