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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/13] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:31:55PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a
> > swapfile backed by NBD. 16*NUM_CPU processes were started that create
> > anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total
> > size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under
> > memory pressure. Without the patches, the machine locks up within
> > minutes and runs to completion with them applied.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Nice!
>
> It is easy to see why swapping needs these fixes, but... dirty memory
> writeout is used for memory clearing, too. Are same changes neccessary
> to make that safe?
>

Dirty page limiting covers the MAP_SHARED cases and are already
throttled approprately.

> (Perhaps raise 'max dirty %' for testing?)

Stress testing passed for dirty ratios of 40% at least. Maybe it would
cause issues when raised to nearly 100% but I don't think that is a
particularly interesting use case.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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