From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C016B017B for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:51:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E0076C7.4000809@draigBrady.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:47:35 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: sandy bridge kswapd0 livelock with pagecache References: <4E0069FE.4000708@draigBrady.com> <20110621103920.GF9396@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20110621103920.GF9396@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org 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. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org