Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`

[Boris Zhmurov]

Paul E. McKenney Thu Dec 01 2016 - 14:39:21 EST:

>> Well, I can confirm, that replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in 
>> shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched also makes dmesg clean from RCU 
>> CPU stall warnings.
>> 
>> I've attached patch (just modification of Paul's patch), that
>> fixes RCU stall messages in situations, when all memory is used by
>>  couchbase/memcached + fs cache and linux starts to use swap.

> Nice! Just to double-check, could you please also test your patch
> above with these two commits from -rcu?
> 
> d2db185bfee8 ("rcu: Remove short-term CPU kicking") f8f127e738e3
> ("rcu: Add long-term CPU kicking")
> 
> Thanx, Paul


Looks like patches d2db185bfee8 and f8f127e738e3 change nothing.

With cond_resched() in shrink_node_memcg and these two patches dmesg is
clean. No any RCU CPU stall messages.

Thanks.

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