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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>, Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: vmscan: Do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:36:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEA8470.9040907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323877293-15401-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>

On 12/14/2011 10:41 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so
> that compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If
> this decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible
> that 0 is returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an
> OOM. This has not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch
> addresses it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

-- 
All rights reversed

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 15:41 [PATCH 0/11] Reduce compaction-related stalls and improve asynchronous migration of dirty pages v6 Mel Gorman
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Mel Gorman
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory Mel Gorman
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: vmscan: Check if we isolated a compound page during lumpy scan Mel Gorman
2011-12-15 23:21   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: vmscan: Do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction Mel Gorman
2011-12-15 23:36   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: compaction: Determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  3:32   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-16 23:20   ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-17  3:03     ` Nai Xia
2011-12-17  3:26       ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-19 11:05     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-19 13:12       ` nai.xia
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  3:34   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-18  1:53   ` Minchan Kim
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 07/11] mm: page allocator: Do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  4:10   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 08/11] mm: compaction: Introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  4:31   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-18  2:05   ` Minchan Kim
2011-12-19 11:45     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-20  7:18       ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-13 21:25   ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-16 11:33     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 09/11] mm: vmscan: When reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  4:35   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 10/11] mm: vmscan: Check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() is true for one zone Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  4:38   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-16 11:29     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 11/11] mm: Isolate pages for immediate reclaim on their own LRU Mel Gorman
2011-12-16  4:47   ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-16 12:26     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-16 15:17   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-12-16 16:07     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-19 16:14       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-12-17 16:08   ` Minchan Kim
2011-12-19 13:26     ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-20  7:10       ` Minchan Kim
2011-12-20  9:55         ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-23 19:08           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-12-29 16:59             ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-29 19:31               ` Rik van Riel
2011-12-30 11:27                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-16 22:56 ` [PATCH 0/11] Reduce compaction-related stalls and improve asynchronous migration of dirty pages v6 Andrew Morton
2011-12-19 14:40   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-16 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-19 14:20   ` Mel Gorman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-01 17:36 [PATCH 0/11] Reduce compaction-related stalls and improve asynchronous migration of dirty pages v5 Mel Gorman
2011-12-01 17:36 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: vmscan: Do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction Mel Gorman

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