From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:22:51 -0400 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" Message-ID: <493160000.997215771@tiny> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Daniel Phillips , Ben LaHaise , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:52:11 PM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Chris Mason wrote: >> >> Linus seemed pretty sure kswapd wasn't deadlocked, but though I would >> mention this anyway.... > > The thing that Leonard seems able to repeat pretty well is just doing a > "mke2fs" on a big partition. I don't think xfs is involved there at all. It depends, mke2fs could be just another GFP_NOFS process waiting around for kswapd to free buffers. If a journaled filesystem is there, and it is locking up kswapd, any heavy buffer allocator could make the problem seem worse. But, if you mean XFS is not mounted at all, I'm way off ;-) -chris -- 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/