Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BUG] fatal hang untarring 90GB file, possibly writeback related. | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 10 May 2011 09:01:04 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 11:21 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > I really would like to hear if the fix makes a big difference or > if we need to consider forcing SLUB high-order allocations bailing > at the first sign of trouble (e.g. by masking out __GFP_WAIT in > allocate_slab). Even with the fix applied, kswapd might be waking up > less but processes will still be getting stalled in direct compaction > and direct reclaim so it would still be jittery.
"the fix" being this
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/5/121
In addition to your GFP_KSWAPD one?
OK, will retry with that.
James
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