Re: Can't make use of swap memory in 2.6.7-bk19

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:30:45AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> swappiness is set to 60.
> However, I realized that I had set /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode to 1. If I set
> it to 0, 2.6.7-bk10 starts to work.

Probably not what will get merged, but does the following brutal hack
do anything for you?


Index: laptop-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- laptop-2.6.8-rc1.orig/mm/vmscan.c	2004-07-11 10:33:55.000000000 -0700
+++ laptop-2.6.8-rc1/mm/vmscan.c	2004-07-13 22:18:04.193959968 -0700
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@
 	sc.may_writepage = 0;
 
 	inc_page_state(allocstall);
-
+retry:
 	for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++)
 		zones[i]->temp_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
 
@@ -940,8 +940,14 @@
 		if (sc.nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
 			blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 	}
-	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY))
-		out_of_memory();
+	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
+		if (!laptop_mode || sc.may_writepage)
+			out_of_memory();
+		else {
+			sc.may_writepage = 1;
+			goto retry;
+		}
+	}
 out:
 	for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++)
 		zones[i]->prev_priority = zones[i]->temp_priority;