From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:13:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0108072013590B.02365@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <292520000.997205190@tiny>
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 19:26, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:04:05 AM -0700 Linus Torvalds
>
> <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> Sorry, I should have warned people: pre5 is a test-release that was
> >> intended solely for Leonard Zubkoff who has been helping with
> >> trying to debug a FS livelock condition.
> >
> > So I _think_ that what happens is:
> > - alloc_pages() itself isn't making any progress, because it's
> > called with GFP_NOFS and thus cannot touch a lot of the pages.
> > - we wake up kswapd to try to help, but kswapd doesn't do anything
> > because it thinks things are fine.
>
> Which filesystem? If its one of the journaled ones, other processes
> might be waiting on the log trying to flush things out.
xfs.
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Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-03 23:44 [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" Ben LaHaise
2001-08-03 23:44 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 1:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 1:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 3:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:26 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 3:26 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 3:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 4:14 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 4:14 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 4:39 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 4:39 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 5:13 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 5:13 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 5:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 5:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 5:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-04 5:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-04 7:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 7:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 23:28 ` [PATCH] Unlazy activate (was: re "ongoing vm suckage") Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 14:22 ` [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" Mike Black
2001-08-04 14:22 ` Mike Black
2001-08-04 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 20:54 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-08-05 4:19 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-08-05 4:19 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-08-05 18:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-05 18:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-05 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:45 ` arjan
2001-08-06 20:32 ` Rob Landley
2001-08-06 20:32 ` Rob Landley
2001-08-05 15:24 ` Mike Black
2001-08-05 15:24 ` Mike Black
2001-08-05 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-05 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-05 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 16:21 ` Mark Hemment
2001-08-04 16:21 ` Mark Hemment
2001-08-07 15:45 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 15:45 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 16:51 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 16:51 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-07 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-07 18:40 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 18:40 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 21:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-07 21:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-07 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 17:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-07 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 19:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-07 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 23:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 17:26 ` Chris Mason
2001-08-07 18:13 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-08-07 18:40 ` Chris Mason
2001-08-07 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 20:22 ` Chris Mason
2001-08-08 1:08 ` Theodore Tso
2001-08-08 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-08 2:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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