Messages in this thread | | | Date | 29 Nov 2012 09:54:14 -0500 | From | "George Spelvin" <> | Subject | Re: 3.7-rc6 soft lockup in kswapd0 |
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Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: >> Well, it just made it to 24 hours, >> it did before. I'm going to wait a couple more days before declaring >> victory, but it looks good so far. >> >> 19:19:10 up 1 day, 0 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.20, 0.22 >> 21:24:05 up 1 day, 2:05, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.19, 0.18 > > Superb. The relevant patches *should* be in flight for 3.7 assuming they > make it through the confusion of last-minute fixes.
14:53:54 up 2 days, 19:35, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.23
Almost three days, when it wouldn't live overnight before. As promised, I'm declaring victory.
The patch that worked (on top of -rc7) was Johannes Weiner's "mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing" that added the zone_balanced() function to mm/vmscan.c:2400.
Thank you all very much!
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