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SubjectRe: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements
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On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:34 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> writes:
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> > We can easily [he says, glibly] reproduce the hang on the anon_vma lock
>
> Is that a NUMA platform? On non x86? Perhaps you just need queued spinlocks?

We see this on both NUMA and non-NUMA. x86_64 and ia64. The basic
criteria to reproduce is to be able to run thousands [or low 10s of
thousands] of tasks, continually increasing the number until the system
just goes into reclaim. Instead of swapping, the system seems to
hang--unresponsive from the console, but with "soft lockup" messages
spitting out every few seconds...


Lee


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> -Andi



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