On an overcommitted system which is running multiple workloads of
varying priorities, it is preferred to trigger an oom-killer to kill a
low priority workload than to let the high priority workload receiving
ENOMEMs. On our memory overcommitted systems, we are seeing a lot of
ENOMEMs instead of oom-kills because io_uring_setup callchain is using
__GFP_NORETRY gfp flag which avoids the oom-killer. Let's remove it and
allow the oom-killer to kill a lower priority job.
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/io_uring.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index e54c4127422e..d9eeb202363c 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -8928,10 +8928,9 @@ static void io_mem_free(void *ptr)
static void *io_mem_alloc(size_t size)
{
- gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_COMP |
- __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
+ gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_COMP;
- return (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp_flags, get_order(size));
+ return (void *) __get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
}
static unsigned long rings_size(unsigned sq_entries, unsigned cq_entries,
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