Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel 3.11 / 3.12 OOM killer and Xen ballooning

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:56:54AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 02:45:24PM +0000, James Dingwall wrote:
> > Bob Liu wrote:
> > >On 01/29/2014 01:15 AM, James Dingwall wrote:
> > >>Bob Liu wrote:
> > >>>I have made a patch by reserving extra 10% of original total memory, by
> > >>>this way I think we can make the system much more reliably in all cases.
> > >>>Could you please have a test? You don't need to set
> > >>>selfballoon_reserved_mb by yourself any more.
> > >>I have to say that with this patch the situation has definitely
> > >>improved.  I have been running it with 3.12.[78] and 3.13 and pushing it
> > >>quite hard for the last 10 days or so.  Unfortunately yesterday I got an
> > >Good news!
> > >
> > >>OOM during a compile (link) of webkit-gtk.  I think your patch is part
> > >>of the solution but I'm not sure if the other bit is simply to be more
> > >>generous with the guest memory allocation or something else.  Having
> > >>tested with memory = 512  and no tmem I get an OOM with the same
> > >>compile, with memory = 1024 and no tmem the compile completes ok (both
> > >>cases without maxmem).  As my domains are usually started with memory =
> > >>512 and maxmem = 1024 it seems that there should be sufficient with my

Hmmm... James, how do you build webkit-gtk? Just simple "make" or "make -j"?
Could you confirm that webkit-gtk in any "subjobs" do not use "make -j"?

> > >But I think from the beginning tmem/balloon driver can't expand guest
> > >memory from size 'memory' to 'maxmem' automatically.
> > I am carrying this patch for libxl (4.3.1) because maxmem wasn't
> > being honoured.

James, what do you mean by "maxmem wasn't being honoured"?

> Daniel,
>
> Weren't you working on a similar patch? Do you recall what happend to it?

Yep, and it was not applied because it has not been so mature. Additionally,
this patch is part of bigger puzzle. I have it on my todo list but I would
like to finish EFI stuff first. However, if you wish I could back to this
work (if it is more important then EFI right now).

Daniel

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