From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx127.postini.com [74.125.245.127]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0CC66B0081 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:09:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:08:43 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: 3.7-rc6 soft lockup in kswapd0 Message-ID: <20121129170843.GJ2301@cmpxchg.org> References: <20121128113920.GU8218@suse.de> <20121129145414.9415.qmail@science.horizon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121129145414.9415.qmail@science.horizon.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: George Spelvin Cc: mgorman@suse.de, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:54:14AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > Mel Gorman wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > >> Well, it just made it to 24 hours, > >> it did before. I'm going to wait a couple more days before declaring > >> victory, but it looks good so far. > >> > >> 19:19:10 up 1 day, 0 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.20, 0.22 > >> 21:24:05 up 1 day, 2:05, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.19, 0.18 > > > > Superb. The relevant patches *should* be in flight for 3.7 assuming they > > make it through the confusion of last-minute fixes. > > 14:53:54 up 2 days, 19:35, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.23 > > Almost three days, when it wouldn't live overnight before. > As promised, I'm declaring victory. > > The patch that worked (on top of -rc7) was Johannes Weiner's > "mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing" > that added the zone_balanced() function to mm/vmscan.c:2400. Thanks for testing! Love, Georgina -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org