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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: fix draining remote pageset
On Mon 14-08-23 09:59:51, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Hi, Michal,
>
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri 11-08-23 17:08:19, Huang Ying wrote:
> >> If there is no memory allocation/freeing in the remote pageset after
> >> some time (3 seconds for now), the remote pageset will be drained to
> >> avoid memory wastage.
> >>
> >> But in the current implementation, vmstat updater worker may not be
> >> re-queued when we are waiting for the timeout (pcp->expire != 0) if
> >> there are no vmstat changes, for example, when CPU goes idle.
> >
> > Why is that a problem?
>
> The pages of the remote zone may be kept in the local per-CPU pageset
> for long time as long as there's no page allocation/freeing on the
> logical CPU. In addition to the logical CPU goes idle, this is also
> possible if the logical CPU is busy in the user space.

But why is this a problem? Is the scale of the problem sufficient to
trigger out of memory situations or be otherwise harmful?

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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