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DateWed, 2 Jan 2002 10:25:23 -0200 (BRST)
FromRik van Riel <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.17 vs 2.2.19 vs rml new VM
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:

> I tried rmap-10 new VM and under my typical load my desktop machine
> froze repeatedly.  Seemed the memory pool was going down the drain
> before the freeze. Meaning apps were failing and getting stuck in
> various odd states.

There's a stupid logic inversion bug in rmap-10, which is
fixed in rmap-10a. Andrew Morton tracked it down about an
hour after I released rmap-10.

Basically in wakeup_kswapd() user processes go to sleep
if the pressure on the VM is _really_ high *and* the user
process has all the same GFP options set as kswapd itself,
so the process can sleep on kswapd.

	if ((gfp_mask & GFP_KSWAPD) == GFP_KSWAPD)
		return;
Thinking about it, rmap-10a doesn't do the right thing,
either, releasing patches at 4 am isn't the right thing ;)

In vmscan.c, line 707 _should_ be:

	if ((gfp_mask & GFP_KSWAPD) != GFP_KSWAPD)
		return;
This way tasks which cannot safely sleep on kswapd will
return immediately, allowing only tasks which _can_
sleep on kswapd to go for a break.

Oh well, time for testing and releasing rmap-11 ;)

regards,

Rik
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