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Andrea Arcangeli authored
THP allocation might be really disruptive when allocated on NUMA system
with the local node full or hard to reclaim.  Stefan has posted an
allocation stall report on 4.12 based SLES kernel which suggests the
same issue:

  kvm: page allocation stalls for 194572ms, order:9, mode:0x4740ca(__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_THISNODE|__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM), nodemask=(null)
  kvm cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0-1
  CPU: 10 PID: 84752 Comm: kvm Tainted: G        W 4.12.0+98-ph <a href="/view.php?id=1" title="[geschlossen] Integration Ramdisk" class="resolved">0000001</a> SLE15 (unreleased)
  Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-1029P-WTRT/X11DDW-NT, BIOS 2.0 12/05/2017
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x5c/0x84
   warn_alloc+0xe0/0x180
   __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x820/0xc90
   __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1cc/0x210
   alloc_pages_vma+0x1e5/0x280
   do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x83f/0xf00
   __handle_mm_fault+0x93d/0x1060
   handl...
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