On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:34:17 +0800 Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When spaces of swap devices are exhausted, only file pages can be > reclaimed. But there are still some swapcache pages in anon lru list. > This can lead to a premature out-of-memory. > > The problem is found with such step: > > Firstly, set a 9MB disk swap space, then create a cgroup with 10MB > memory limit, then runs an program to allocates about 15MB memory. > > The problem occurs occasionally, which may need about 100 times [1]. > > Fix it by checking number of swapcache pages in can_reclaim_anon_pages(). > If the number is not zero, return true and set swapcache_only to 1. > When scan anon lru list in swapcache_only mode, non-swapcache pages will > be skipped to isolate in order to accelerate reclaim efficiency. > > However, in swapcache_only mode, the scan count still increased when scan > non-swapcache pages because there are large number of non-swapcache pages > and rare swapcache pages in swapcache_only mode, and if the non-swapcache > is skipped and do not count, the scan of pages in isolate_lru_folios() can > eventually lead to hung task, just as Sachin reported [2]. > > By the way, since there are enough times of memory reclaim before OOM, it > is not need to isolate too much swapcache pages in one times. > mhocko earlier suspected this might impact global reclaim. Have you looked into that further?
