On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:52:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:13:59 +0000 > Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Based on the reports I've seen I expect the following to work for 3.7 > > > > Keep > > 96710098 mm: revert "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures" > > ef6c5be6 fix incorrect NR_FREE_PAGES accounting (appears like memory leak) > > > > Revert > > 82b212f4 Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" > > > > Merge > > mm: vmscan: fix kswapd endless loop on higher order allocation > > mm: Avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended > > "mm: Avoid waking kswapd for THP ..." is marked "I have not tested it > myself" and when Zdenek tested it he hit an unexplained oom. > I thought Zdenek was testing with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD when he hit that OOM. Further, when he hit that OOM, it looked like a genuine OOM. He had no swap configured and inactive/active file pages were very low. Finally, the free pages for Normal looked off and could also have been affected by the accounting bug. I'm looking at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/18/132 here. Are you thinking of something else? I have not tested with the patch admittedly but Thorsten has and seemed to be ok with it https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/23/276. > > Johannes' patch should remove the necessity for __GFP_NO_KSWAPD revert but I > > think we should also avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations if compaction > > is deferred. Johannes' patch might mean that kswapd goes quickly go back > > to sleep but it's still busy work. > > > > 3.6 is still known to be screwed in terms of THP because of the amount of > > time it can spend in compaction after lumpy reclaim was removed. This is > > my old list of patches I felt needed to be backported after 3.7 came out. > > They are not tagged -stable, I'll be sending it to Greg manually. > > > > e64c523 mm: compaction: abort compaction loop if lock is contended or run too long > > 3cc668f mm: compaction: move fatal signal check out of compact_checklock_irqsave > > 661c4cb mm: compaction: Update try_to_compact_pages()kerneldoc comment > > 2a1402a mm: compaction: acquire the zone->lru_lock as late as possible > > f40d1e4 mm: compaction: acquire the zone->lock as late as possible > > 753341a revert "mm: have order > 0 compaction start off where it left" > > bb13ffe mm: compaction: cache if a pageblock was scanned and no pages were isolated > > c89511a mm: compaction: Restart compaction from near where it left off > > 6299702 mm: compaction: clear PG_migrate_skip based on compaction and reclaim activity > > 0db63d7 mm: compaction: correct the nr_strict va isolated check for CMA > > > > Only Johannes' patch needs to be added to this list. kswapd is not woken > > for THP in 3.6 but as it calls compaction for other high-order allocations > > it still makes sense. > > Please identify "Johannes' patch"? mm: vmscan: fix kswapd endless loop on higher order allocation -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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>