From: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@optronic.se>
To: "'quintela@fi.udc.es'" <quintela@fi.udc.es>
Cc: "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: reduce shrink_mmap rate of failure (initial attempt)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:04:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01BFD09A.CC430AF0@lando.optronic.se> (raw)
>That patch hangs my machine here when I run mmap002. The machine is
>in shrink_mmap. It hangs trying to get the pagmap_lru_lock.
>
>I think that the idea is good, but it doesn't work here :(.
>
>Later, Juan.
Ouch...
The only possible explaination is that we are searching for pages on a zone.
But no such pages are possible to free from LRU...
And we LOOP the list, holding the lru lock...
Note: without this patch you may end up in another bad situation where
shrink_mmap always fails and swapping will start until it swaps out a page
of that specific zone.
And without the test? We would free all other LRU pages without finding one
that we want :-(
This will be interesting to fix...
May the allocation of pages play a part? Filling zone after zone will give no
mix between the zones.
/RogerL
(from work)
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next reply other threads:[~2000-06-07 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-07 14:04 Roger Larsson [this message]
2000-06-07 14:35 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-08 0:04 ` Roger Larsson
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2000-06-06 23:49 Roger Larsson
2000-06-07 3:01 ` Quintela Carreira Juan J.
2000-06-07 13:22 ` Zlatko Calusic
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