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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>