On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:08:44AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 16-03-17 01:47:33, l...@pengaru.com wrote: > [...] > > While on the topic of understanding allocation stalls, Philip Freeman > > recently > > mailed linux-kernel with a similar report, and in his case there are plenty > > of > > page cache pages. It was also a GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE 0-order allocation. > > care to point me to the report?
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1703.1/06360.html > > > I'm no MM expert, but it appears a bit broken for such a low-order > > allocation > > to stall on the order of 10 seconds when there's plenty of reclaimable > > pages, > > in addition to mostly unused and abundant swap space on SSD. > > yes this might indeed signal a problem. Well maybe I missed something obvious that a better informed eye will catch. Regards, Vito Caputo
