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Mel Gorman 1b4e3f26f9 mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress 
Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar
problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time.  In
Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for
several minutes before stalling.  In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small
memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough
memory overall.

Commit 69392a403f ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is
being made") introduced the problem although commit a19594ca4a
("mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making
progress") made it worse.  Systems at or near an OOM state that cannot
be recovered must reach OOM quickly and memcg should kill tasks if a
memcg is near OOM.

To address this, only stall for the first zone in the zonelist, reduce
the timeout to 1 tick for VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS and only stall if
the scan control nr_reclaimed is 0, kswapd is still active and there
were excessive pages pending for writeback.  If kswapd has stopped
reclaiming due to excessive failures, do not stall at all so that OOM
triggers relatively quickly.  Similarly, if an LRU is simply congested,
only lightly throttle similar to NOPROGRESS.

Alexey's original case was the most straight forward

	for i in {1..3}; do tail /dev/zero; done

On vanilla 5.16-rc1, this test stalled heavily, after the patch the test
completes in a few seconds similar to 5.15.

Alexey's second test case added watching a youtube video while tail runs
10 times.  On 5.15, playback only jitters slightly, 5.16-rc1 stalls a
lot with lots of frames missing and numerous audio glitches.  With this
patch applies, the video plays similarly to 5.15.

[lkp@intel.com: Fix W=1 build warning]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99e779783d6c7fce96448a3402061b9dc1b3b602.camel@gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202150614.22440-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv/
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Avramov <hakavlad@inbox.lv>
Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tracked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Fixes: 69392a403f ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-31 11:17:07 -08:00
arch powerpc fixes for 5.16 #5 2021-12-28 11:42:01 -08:00
block block-5.16-2021-12-19 2021-12-19 12:38:53 -08:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
Documentation Networking fixes for 5.16-rc8, including fixes from.. Santa? 2021-12-30 11:12:12 -08:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20211231 2021-12-31 09:22:25 -08:00
fs fs/mount_setattr: always cleanup mount_kattr 2021-12-30 15:12:13 -08:00
include mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress 2021-12-31 11:17:07 -08:00
init kbuild: Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 error for GCC 5.x and 6.x 2021-11-14 18:59:49 -08:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-11-20 10:35:54 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-12-25 12:30:03 -08:00
lib Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-12-08 16:06:44 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress 2021-12-31 11:17:07 -08:00
net net/ncsi: check for error return from call to nla_put_u32 2021-12-29 17:53:24 -08:00
samples ftrace/samples: Add module to test multi direct modify interface 2021-12-09 13:02:44 -05:00
scripts recordmcount.pl: fix typo in s390 mcount regex 2021-12-24 10:20:12 +01:00
security selinux/stable-5.16 PR 20211228 2021-12-28 13:33:06 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.16-rc7 2021-12-23 09:55:58 -08:00
tools userfaultfd/selftests: fix hugetlb area allocations 2021-12-31 09:20:12 -08:00
usr initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2021-10-24 13:48:40 +09:00
virt KVM: downgrade two BUG_ONs to WARN_ON_ONCE 2021-11-26 06:43:28 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address for Guo Ren 2021-12-10 17:10:55 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: mark more list instances as moderated 2021-12-25 12:20:55 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.16-rc7 2021-12-26 13:17:17 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.