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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: sandy bridge kswapd0 livelock with pagecache
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:47:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0076C7.4000809@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110621103920.GF9396@suse.de>

On 21/06/11 11:39, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:53:02AM +0100, P?draig Brady wrote:
>> I tried the 2 patches here to no avail:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130503811704830&w=2
>>
>> I originally logged this at:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712019
>>
>> I can compile up and quickly test any suggestions.
>>
> 
> I recently looked through what kswapd does and there are a number
> of problem areas. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to doing
> anything about it yet or running the test cases to see if they are
> really problems. In your case, the following is a strong possibility
> though. This should be applied on top of the two patches merged from
> that thread.
> 
> This is not tested in any way, based on 3.0-rc3

This does not fix the issue here.

cheers,
Padraig.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21  9:53 Pádraig Brady
2011-06-21 10:39 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-21 10:47   ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2011-06-21 11:34     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-21 11:59       ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-21 13:07         ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-21 14:23           ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-22  9:44             ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-22 10:19               ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-23 11:46                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-23 13:04                   ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-23 15:24                     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-23 15:32                       ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-23 16:59                         ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-23 19:25                           ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-24 11:44                             ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 13:10                               ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-24 15:04                                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-24  6:33             ` Shaohua Li
2011-06-21 14:34         ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-21 15:29           ` Pádraig Brady

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