Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2011 14:13:44 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Reduce impact to overall system of SLUB using high-order allocations |
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On 5/12/11 1:34 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:28 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: >> On Wed, 11 May 2011, James Bottomley wrote: >> >>> OK, I confirm that I can't seem to break this one. No hangs visible, >>> even when loading up the system with firefox, evolution, the usual >>> massive untar, X and even a distribution upgrade. >>> >>> You can add my tested-by >>> >> Your system still hangs with patches 1 and 2 only? > Yes, but only once in all the testing. With patches 1 and 2 the hang is > much harder to reproduce, but it still seems to be present if I hit it > hard enough.
Patches 1-2 look reasonable to me. I'm not completely convinced of patch 3, though. Why are we seeing these problems now? This has been in mainline for a long time already. Shouldn't we fix kswapd?
Pekka
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