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From: Cheng-yu Lee <cylee@google.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>,
	Ben Cheng <bccheng@google.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: shrink_inactive_list() failed to reclaim pages
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:34:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPJVTTgf=gDHQr7iF1+NQtEer_dGAH2Bw0e1rKnNz9Enj7Fnaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170111173802.GK16365@dhcp22.suse.cz>

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>
> > I have a x86_64 Chromebook running 3.14 kernel with 8G of memory. Using
>
> Do you see the same with the current Linus tree?
>

I haven't tried on ToT because it takes much effort to port to the specific
device.
But I've managed to try it on v4.4 .
Surprisingly the problem goes away.



> > Thus the kernel fails to reclaim those pages at line 1209
> > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/vmscan.c#L1209
>
> I assume that you are talking about the anonymous LRU
>

Yes, I mean anonymous LRU.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-12 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-11 17:16 Cheng-yu Lee
2017-01-11 17:38 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-12  4:02   ` Pintu Kumar
2017-01-12  5:33   ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-12 12:55   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-01-12 16:34   ` Cheng-yu Lee [this message]

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