From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
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Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
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Subject: Re: Why PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls for a long time
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 17:47:08 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100801174229.4B08.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100730103018.GE3571@csn.ul.ie>
> > side note: page lock contention is very common case.
> >
> > For case (8), I don't think sleeping is right way. get_page() is used in really various place of
> > our kernel. so we can't assume it's only temporary reference count increasing.
>
> In what case is a munlocked pages reference count permanently increased and
> why is this not a memory leak?
V4L, audio, GEM and/or other multimedia driver?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-01 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 7:17 [PATCH] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28 7:49 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-28 8:46 ` [PATCH] vmscan: remove wait_on_page_writeback() from pageout() Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28 9:10 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-28 9:30 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28 9:45 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-28 9:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-28 9:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-28 9:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-01 5:27 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-01 5:49 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-01 8:32 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-01 8:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-01 8:40 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-01 5:17 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28 16:29 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-28 11:40 ` Why PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls for a long time KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-28 13:10 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-29 10:34 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-29 14:24 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-30 4:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-30 10:30 ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-01 8:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2010-08-04 11:10 ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-05 6:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 8:09 ` Andreas Mohr
2010-07-28 17:30 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-29 1:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-30 13:17 ` [PATCH] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls Andrea Arcangeli
2010-07-30 13:31 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-31 16:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-31 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-31 17:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-31 17:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-31 18:09 ` Pekka Enberg
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