Re: Still OOM problems with 4.9er/4.10er kernels

[lkml]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:08:44AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 16-03-17 01:47:33, lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx 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