On 09/23/2016 10:23 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:

On Fri 23-09-16 08:55:33, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
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From 1623d5bd441160569ffad3808aeeec852048e558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:02:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: pull no_progress_loops update to
 should_reclaim_retry()

The should_reclaim_retry() makes decisions based on no_progress_loops, so it
makes sense to also update the counter there. It will be also consistent with
should_compact_retry() and compaction_retries. No functional change.

[hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com: fix missing pointer dereferences]
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <redacted>

OK, this looks reasonable to me. Could you post both patches in a

Both? I would argue that [1] might be relevant because it resets the
number of retries. Only the should_reclaim_retry() cleanup is not
stricly needed.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[ref]

separate thread please? They shouldn't be really needed to mitigate the
pre-mature oom killer issues. Feel free to add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Thanks!

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---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 582820080601..6039ff40452c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -3401,16 +3401,26 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 static inline bool
 should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order,
 		     struct alloc_context *ac, int alloc_flags,
-		     bool did_some_progress, int no_progress_loops)
+		     bool did_some_progress, int *no_progress_loops)
 {
 	struct zone *zone;
 	struct zoneref *z;
 
 	/*
+	 * Costly allocations might have made a progress but this doesn't mean
+	 * their order will become available due to high fragmentation so
+	 * always increment the no progress counter for them
+	 */
+	if (did_some_progress && order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+		*no_progress_loops = 0;
+	else
+		(*no_progress_loops)++;
+
+	/*
 	 * Make sure we converge to OOM if we cannot make any progress
 	 * several times in the row.
 	 */
-	if (no_progress_loops > MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
+	if (*no_progress_loops > MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
 		return false;
 
 	/*

@@ -3425,7 +3435,7 @@ should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order,
 		unsigned long reclaimable;
 
 		available = reclaimable = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
-		available -= DIV_ROUND_UP(no_progress_loops * available,
+		available -= DIV_ROUND_UP((*no_progress_loops) * available,
 					  MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES);
 		available += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
 

@@ -3641,18 +3651,8 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT))
 		goto nopage;
 
-	/*
-	 * Costly allocations might have made a progress but this doesn't mean
-	 * their order will become available due to high fragmentation so
-	 * always increment the no progress counter for them
-	 */
-	if (did_some_progress && order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
-		no_progress_loops = 0;
-	else
-		no_progress_loops++;
-
 	if (should_reclaim_retry(gfp_mask, order, ac, alloc_flags,
-				 did_some_progress > 0, no_progress_loops))
+				 did_some_progress > 0, &no_progress_loops))
 		goto retry;
 
 	/*

-- 
2.10.0


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