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Commit 9ee493ce authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: page allocator: drain per-cpu lists after direct reclaim allocation fails



When under significant memory pressure, a process enters direct reclaim
and immediately afterwards tries to allocate a page.  If it fails and no
further progress is made, it's possible the system will go OOM.  However,
on systems with large amounts of memory, it's possible that a significant
number of pages are on per-cpu lists and inaccessible to the calling
process.  This leads to a process entering direct reclaim more often than
it should increasing the pressure on the system and compounding the
problem.

This patch notes that if direct reclaim is making progress but allocations
are still failing that the system is already under heavy pressure.  In
this case, it drains the per-cpu lists and tries the allocation a second
time before continuing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro ...
parent aa454840
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