Re: [RFC] mem-hotplug: shall we skip unmovable node when doing numa balance?

[Mel Gorman]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:17:03AM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> On 2016/11/9 19:58, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 12:43:17PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> >> On mem-hotplug system, there is a problem, please see the following case.
> >>
> >> memtester xxG, the memory will be alloced on a movable node. And after numa
> >> balancing, the memory may be migrated to the other node, it may be a unmovable
> >> node. This will reduce the free memory of the unmovable node, and may be oom
> >> later.
> >>
> > 
> > How would it OOM later? It's movable memmory that is moving via
> > automatic NUMA balancing so at the very least it can be reclaimed. If
> > the memory is mlocked or unable to migrate then it's irrelevant if
> > automatic balancing put it there.
> > 
> 
> memtester will mlock the memory, so we can not reclaim, then maybe oom, right?
> So let the manager set some numa policies to prevent the above case, right?
> 

Deal with it using policies.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs