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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: memcg: fix fatal livelock in kswapd
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 15:07:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304366849.15370.27.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)

The fatal livelock in kswapd, reported in this thread:

http://marc.info/?t=130392066000001

Is mitigateable if we prevent the cgroups code being so aggressive in
its zone shrinking (by reducing it's default shrink from 0 [everything]
to DEF_PRIORITY [some things]).  This will have an obvious knock on
effect to cgroup accounting, but it's better than hanging systems.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-02 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 20:07 James Bottomley [this message]
2011-05-02 22:48 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-02 23:14   ` Ying Han
2011-05-02 23:58     ` James Bottomley
2011-05-03  6:38       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-03 14:11         ` James Bottomley
2011-05-05 21:00           ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-03  6:11     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-07 21:59   ` Balbir Singh
2011-05-07 22:00     ` Balbir Singh
2011-05-02 22:53 ` Paul Menage

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