Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 May 2016 15:12:47 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm, thp: remove duplication and fix locking issues in swapin |
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On Mon 23-05-16 20:29:29, Ebru Akagunduz wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 08:14:08PM +0300, Ebru Akagunduz wrote: > > This patch series removes duplication of included header > > and fixes locking inconsistency in khugepaged swapin > > > > Ebru Akagunduz (3): > > mm, thp: remove duplication of included header > > mm, thp: fix possible circular locking dependency caused by > > sum_vm_event() > > mm, thp: make swapin readahead under down_read of mmap_sem > > > > mm/huge_memory.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > > 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I prepared this patch series to solve rest of > problems of khugepaged swapin. > > I have seen the discussion: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146373278424897&w=2 > > In my opinion, checking whether kswapd is wake up > could be good.
This is still not enough because it doesn't help memcg loads. kswapd might be sleeping but the memcg reclaim can still be active. So I think we really need to do ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM thing.
> It's up to you. I can take an action according to community's decision.
IMHO we should drop the current ALLOCSTALL heuristic and replace it with ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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