On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 10:12 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 08-03-17 10:54:57, Rik van Riel wrote: > > In fact, false OOM kills with that kind of workload is > > how we ended up getting the "too many isolated" logic > > in the first place. > Right, but the retry logic was considerably different than what we > have these days. should_reclaim_retry considers amount of reclaimable > memory. As I've said earlier if we see a report where the oom hits > prematurely with many NR_ISOLATED* we know how to fix that. Would it be enough to simply reset no_progress_loops in this check inside should_reclaim_retry, if we know pageout IO is pending? if (!did_some_progress) { unsigned long write_pending; write_pending = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_WRITE_P ENDING); if (2 * write_pending > reclaimable) { congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); return true; } } -- All rights reversed
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