Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: fix 100% CPU kswapd busyloop on unreclaimable nodes

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 11:30:20 EST


On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:37:40AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 08:59:54AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 03-03-17 10:26:09, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > > @@ -3316,6 +3325,9 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
> > > > sc.priority--;
> > > > } while (sc.priority >= 1);
> > > >
> > > > + if (!sc.nr_reclaimed)
> > > > + pgdat->kswapd_failures++;
> > >
> > > sc.nr_reclaimed is reset to zero in above big loop's beginning so most of time,
> > > it pgdat->kswapd_failures is increased.

That wasn't intentional; I didn't see the sc.nr_reclaimed reset.

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