On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:51:45AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > On Monday 06 August 2007 11:42, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up
> > > > with a reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an
> > > > improvement.
> > >
> > > The system would have died? Why?
> >
> > Because a block device may have deadlocked here, leaving the system
> > unable to clean dirty memory, or unable to load executables over the
> > network for example.
>
> So this is a locking problem that has not been taken care of?
No.
It's very simple:
1) memory becomes full
2) we try to free memory by paging or swapping
3) I/O requires a memory allocation which fails because memory is full
4) box dies because it's unable to dig itself out of OOM
Most I/O paths can deal with this by having a mempool for their I/O
needs. For network I/O, this turns out to be prohibitively hard due to
the complexity of the stack.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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