Re: [PATCH] mm: don't warn about allocations which stall for too long

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 03:52:57 EST


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On Wed 08-11-17 11:30:23, peter enderborg wrote:
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> What about the idea to keep the function, but instead of printing only do a trace event.

I am not sure. I would rather see a tracepoint to mark the allocator
entry. This would allow both 1) measuring the allocation latency (to
compare it to the trace_mm_page_alloc and 2) check for stalls with
arbitrary user defined timeout (just print all allocations which haven't
passed trace_mm_page_alloc for the given amount of time).
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs