linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: vmscan: Reclaim unevictable pages

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Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:12:37 +0000
From:   Pankaj Suryawanshi <pankaj.suryawanshi@...fochips.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "minchan@...nel.org" <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: vmscan: Reclaim unevictable pages


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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Sent: 26 March 2019 14:31
To: Pankaj Suryawanshi
Cc: Kirill Tkhai; Vlastimil Babka; aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; minchan@...nel.org; linux-mm@...ck.org; khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [External] Re: vmscan: Reclaim unevictable pages

[You were asked to use a reasonable quoting several times. This is
really annoying because it turns the email thread into a complete mess]

I already fix the email client, dont know the reason for quoting.

On Tue 26-03-19 07:53:14, Pankaj Suryawanshi wrote:
> Is there anyone who is familiar with this?  Please Comment.

Not really. You are observing an unexpected behavior of the page reclaim
which hasn't changed for quite some time. So I find more probable that
your non-vanilla kernel is doing something unexpected. It would help if
you could track down how does the unevictable page get down to the
reclaim path. I assume this is a CMA page or something like that but
those shouldn't get to the reclaim path AFIR.

As i said earlier, the kernel i am using is vanilla kernel.

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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