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Re: [RFC 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty and writeback pages

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> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3191,8 +3191,23 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  		 */
>  		if (__zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, min_wmark_pages(zone),
>  				ac->high_zoneidx, alloc_flags, target)) {
> -			/* Wait for some write requests to complete then retry */
> -			wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
> +			unsigned long writeback = zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK),
> +				      dirty = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> +
> +			if (did_some_progress)
> +				goto retry;
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * If we didn't make any progress and have a lot of
> +			 * dirty + writeback pages then we should wait for
> +			 * an IO to complete to slow down the reclaim and
> +			 * prevent from pre mature OOM
> +			 */
> +			if (2*(writeback + dirty) > reclaimable)
> +				congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
> +			else
> +				cond_resched();
> +

Looks the vmstat updater issue is not addressed.
>  			goto retry;
>  		}
>  	}
> --
> 2.6.1

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RFC: OOM detection rework v1 mhocko@kernel.org - 2015-10-29 16:20 +0100
  [RFC 3/3] mm: use watermak checks for __GFP_REPEAT high order allocations mhocko@kernel.org - 2015-10-29 16:20 +0100
  [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection mhocko@kernel.org - 2015-10-29 16:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2015-10-30 05:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 09:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 11:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2015-10-30 14:40 +0100
            Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 16:00 +0100
          Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2015-10-31 05:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-10-30 06:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 09:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-10-30 10:50 +0100
          Re: [RFC 1/3] mm, oom: refactor oom detection Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 11:20 +0100
  [RFC 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty and writeback pages mhocko@kernel.org - 2015-10-29 16:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty and writeback pages "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2015-10-30 05:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty  and writeback pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 09:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty  and writeback pages Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-10-30 06:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 2/3] mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty  and writeback pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-10-30 09:40 +0100

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