Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks

[Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:46:51AM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 at 12:26, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> > What this shows is that VFS inode cache memory usage increases until
>> > about the 550 sample mark before the VM starts to reclaim it with
>> > extreme prejudice. At that point, I'd expect the XFS inode cache to
>> > then shrink, and it doesn't. I've got no idea why the either the
>>
>> Do you remember any XFS changes past 2.6.38 that could be related to
>> something like this?
>
> There's plenty of changes that coul dbe the cause - we've changed
> the inode reclaim to run in the background out of a workqueue as
> well as via the shrinker, so it could even be workqueue starvation
> causing the the problem...

RCU free starvation is another possibility?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/25/124

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim