Recently, when install package in a docker which almost reached its memory
limit, the installer has no respond severely for more than 15 minutes.
During this period, I/O stays high(~1G/s) and influence the whole machine.
I've constructed a use case as follows:
1. create a docker:
$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
docker rm centos7 --force
docker create --name centos7 --memory 4G --memory-swap 6G centos:7 /usr/sbin/init
docker start centos7
sleep 1
docker cp ./alloc_page centos7:/
docker cp ./reproduce.sh centos7:/
docker exec -it centos7 /bin/bash
2. try reproduce the problem in docker:
$ cat reproduce.sh
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
flag=$(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep alloc_page| wc -l)
if [ "$flag" -eq 0 ]; then
/alloc_page &
fi
sleep 30
start_time=$(date +%s)
yum install -y expect > /dev/null 2>&1
end_time=$(date +%s)
elapsed_time=$((end_time - start_time))
echo "$elapsed_time seconds"
yum remove -y expect > /dev/null 2>&1
done
$ cat alloc_page.c:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#define SIZE 1*1024*1024 //1M
int main()
{
void *addr = NULL;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 1024 * 6 - 50;i++) {
addr = (void *)malloc(SIZE);
if (!addr)
return -1;
memset(addr, 0, SIZE);
}
sleep(99999);
return 0;
}
We found that this problem is caused by a lot ot meaningless read-ahead.
Since the docker is almost met memory limit, the page will be reclaimed
immediately after read-ahead and will read-ahead again immediately.
The program is executed slowly and waste a lot of I/O resource.
These patches aim to break the read-ahead in above scenario.
Liu Shixin (2):
mm/readahead: break read-ahead loop if filemap_add_folio return
-ENOMEM
mm/filemap: don't decrease mmap_miss when page has workingset flag
mm/filemap.c | 9 ++++++++-
mm/readahead.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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2.25.1