On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Page reclaim determines whether a pgdat is unreclaimable by examining how > many pages have been scanned since a page was freed and comparing that > to the LRU sizes. Skipped pages are not considered reclaim candidates but > contribute to scanned. This can prematurely mark a pgdat as unreclaimable > and trigger an OOM kill. > > While this does not fix an OOM kill message reported by Joonsoo Kim, > it did stop pgdat being marked unreclaimable. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/vmscan.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c > index 22aec2bcfeec..b16d578ce556 100644 > --- a/mm/vmscan.c > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c > @@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan, > LIST_HEAD(pages_skipped); > > for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && nr_taken < nr_to_scan && > - !list_empty(src); scan++) { > + !list_empty(src);) { > struct page *page; > > page = lru_to_page(src); > @@ -1429,6 +1429,9 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan, > continue; > } > > + /* Pages skipped do not contribute to scan */ The comment should explain why. /* Pages skipped do not contribute to scan to prevent premature OOM */ > + scan++; > + The one of my concern about node-lru is to add more lru lock contetion in multiple zone system so such unbounded skip scanning under the lock should have a limit to prevent latency spike and serialization of current reclaim work. Another concern is big mismatch between the number of pages from list and LRU stat count because lruvec_lru_size call sites don't take the stat under the lock while isolate_lru_pages moves many pages from lru list to temporal skipped list. > switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) { > case 0: > nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page); > -- > 2.6.4 > > -- > 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> -- 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>