On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:34:38 +0100 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:44:30PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > When THP is used, Hugepage size charge can happen. It's not handled > > correctly in mem_cgroup_do_charge(). For example, THP can fallback > > to small page allocation when HUGEPAGE allocation seems difficult > > or busy, but memory cgroup doesn't understand it and continue to > > try HUGEPAGE charging. And the worst thing is memory cgroup > > believes 'memory reclaim succeeded' if limit - usage > PAGE_SIZE. > > > > By this, khugepaged etc...can goes into inifinite reclaim loop > > if tasks in memcg are busy. > > > > After this patch > > - Hugepage allocation will fail if 1st trial of page reclaim fails. > > - distinguish THP allocaton from Bached allocation. > > This does too many things at once. Can you split this into more > patches where each one has a single objective? Thanks. > Sure, will do. I'm now testing new ones. Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>