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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:38:22 -0700 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: do not back off draining pcp free pages from kworker context Hello, Sorry about the delay. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:33:42AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Michal, are you sure that this patch does not cause deadlock? > > > > > > As shown in "[PATCH] mm: Use WQ_HIGHPRI for mm_percpu_wq." thread, currently work > > > items on mm_percpu_wq seem to be blocked by other work items not on mm_percpu_wq. IIUC that wasn't a deadlock but more a legitimate starvation from too many tasks trying to reclaim directly. > > But we have a rescuer so we should make a forward progress eventually. > > Or am I missing something. Tejun, could you have a look please? > > ping... I would really appreaciate if you could double check my thinking > Tejun. This is a tricky area and I would like to prevent further subtle > issues here. So, this shouldn't be an issue. This may get affected by direct reclaim frenzy but it's only a small piece of the whole symptom and we gotta fix that at the source. Thanks. -- tejun
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