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Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 05:17:56PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 14:15 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 
> > > For multi page allocations smaller than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER,
> > > the kernel will do direct reclaim if compaction failed for any
> > > reason. This worked fine when Linux systems had 128MB RAM, but
> > > on my 24GB system I frequently see higher order allocations
> > > free up over 3GB of memory, pushing all kinds of things into
> > > swap, and slowing down applications.
> > > 
> > 
> > Just curious, are these higher order allocations typically done by
> > the 
> > slub allocator or where are they coming from?
> 
> These are slab allocator ones, indeed.
> 
> The allocations seem to be order 2 and 3, mostly
> on behalf of the inode cache and alloc_skb.

Hello, Rik.

Could you tell me the kernel version you tested?

Commit 45eb00cd3a03 (mm/slub: don't wait for high-order page
allocation) changes slub allocator's behaviour that high order
allocation request by slub doesn't cause direct reclaim.

Thanks.

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[PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-02-24 22:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-02-24 23:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-02-24 23:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-02-25 01:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-02-25 03:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-02-25 05:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-25 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-02-25 00:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mm: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-25 15:50 +0100

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