Re: [patch for-5.3 0/4] revert immediate fallback to remote hugepages

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 01-10-19 23:54:14, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/1/19 10:31 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
[...]
> > If 
> > hugetlb wants to stress this to the fullest extent possible, it already 
> > appropriately uses __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL.
> 
> Which doesn't work anymore right now, and should again after this patch.

I didn't get to fully digest the patch Vlastimil is proposing. (Ab)using
__GFP_NORETRY is quite subtle but it is already in place with some
explanation and a reference to THPs. So while I am not really happy it
is at least something you can reason about.

b39d0ee2632d ("mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction
may not succeed") on the other hand has added a much more wider change
which has clearly broken hugetlb and any __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL user of
pageblock_order sized allocations. And that is much worse and something
I was pointing at during the review and those concerns were never really
addressed before merging.

In any case this is something to be fixed ASAP. Do you have any better
proposa? I do not assume you would be proposing yet another revert.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs