On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 04:49:46PM +0800, Junxiao Bi wrote: > >>>>>> <SNIP> > >>>>>> Can't you use mempools like the other IO paths? > >>>>> > >>>>> There is no way to pass any allocation flags at all to an operation > >>>>> such as __sock_create() (which may be needed if the server > >>>>> disconnects). So in general, the answer is no. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Actually, one question that should probably be raised before anything > >>>> else: is it at all possible for a workqueue like rpciod to have a > >>>> non-trivial setting for ->target_mem_cgroup? If not, then the whole > >>>> question is moot. > >>>> > >>> > >>> AFAIK, today it's not possible to add kernel threads (which rpciod is one) > >>> to a memcg so the issue is entirely theoritical at the moment. Even if > >>> this was to change, it's not clear to me what adding kernel threads to a > >>> memcg would mean as kernel threads have no RSS. Even if kernel resources > >>> were accounted for, I cannot see why a kernel thread would join a memcg. > >>> > >>> I expec that it's currently impossible for rpciod to have a non-trivial > >>> target_mem_cgroup. The memcg folk will correct me if I'm wrong or if there > >>> are plans to change that for some reason. > >>> > >> > >> Thanks! Then I'll assume that the problem is nonexistent in upstream > >> for now, and drop the idea of using PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO. Perhaps we can > >> then encourage Junxiao to look into backporting some of the VM changes > >> in order to fix his Oracle legacy kernel issues? > >> > > > > Sounds like a plan to me. The other alternative would be backporting the > > handling of wait_on_page_writeback and writeback handling from reclaim but > > that would be much harder considering the rate of change in vmscan.c and > > the problems that were experienced with high CPU usage from kswapd during > > that transition. > > Backport the vm changes may cause a lot of risk due to lots of changes, > i am thinking to check PF_FSTRANS flag in shrink_page_list() to bypass > the fs ops in our old kernel. Can this cause other issue? > I'm afraid that depends on exactly how the kernel you are backporting to interprets PF_FSTRANS. Your original bug was related to wait_on_page_writeback so you'll need to check if PF_FSTRANS is interpreted as !may_enter_fs in reclaim context in your kernel to avoid the wait_on_page_writeback. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
