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Message-ID: <20130503153450.GA18709@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 17:34:50 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Han Pingtian <hanpt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, penberg@...nel.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: OOM-killer and strange RSS value in 3.9-rc7

On Fri 03-05-13 15:25:25, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2013, Han Pingtian wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:10:15PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2 May 2013, Han Pingtian wrote:
> > >
> > > > Looks like "ibmvscsi" + "slub" can trigger this problem.
> > >
> > > And the next merge of the slab-next tree will also cause SLAB to trigger
> > > this issue. I would like to have this fixes. The slab allocator purpose is
> > > to servr objects that are a fraction of a page and not objects that are
> > > larger than the maximum allowed sizes of the page allocator.
> >
> > So the problem is in memory management code, not in ibmvscis? And looks
> > like there is a fix already?
> 
> Both should be fixed.

Could you point to the specific commit(s), please?

> Making requests for large amounts of memory from an allocator that is
> supposed to hand out fraction of a page does not make sense.

AFAIR there were lots of objects in size-512 as well.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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