From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frans Pop Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMIC failures V2 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:51:02 +0200 Message-ID: <200910241551.08291.elendil@planet.nl> References: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel-wPRd99KPJ+uzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mel Gorman Cc: Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , Tobias Oetiker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Miller , Reinette Chatre , Kalle Valo , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mohamed Abbas , Jens Axboe , "John W. Linville" , Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stephan von Krawczynski , Kernel Testers List , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org\"" On Thursday 22 October 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > Since 2.6.31-rc1, there have been an increasing number of GFP_ATOMIC > failures. A significant number of these have been high-order GFP_ATOMIC > failures and while they are generally brushed away, there has been a > large increase in them recently and there are a number of possible areas > the problem could be in - core vm, page writeback and a specific driver. I needed a break and have thus been off-line for a few days. Good to see there's been progress. I'll try to do some testing tomorrow. Cheers, FJP From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753667AbZJXNvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753651AbZJXNvH (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:07 -0400 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml104.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.8]:59599 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML104.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753647AbZJXNvG (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:06 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMIC failures V2 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:51:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , Tobias Oetiker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Miller , Reinette Chatre , Kalle Valo , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mohamed Abbas , Jens Axboe , "John W. Linville" , Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stephan von Krawczynski , Kernel Testers List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org\"" References: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910241551.08291.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Oct 2009 13:51:08.0461 (UTC) FILETIME=[09D885D0:01CA54B1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 22 October 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > Since 2.6.31-rc1, there have been an increasing number of GFP_ATOMIC > failures. A significant number of these have been high-order GFP_ATOMIC > failures and while they are generally brushed away, there has been a > large increase in them recently and there are a number of possible areas > the problem could be in - core vm, page writeback and a specific driver. I needed a break and have thus been off-line for a few days. Good to see there's been progress. I'll try to do some testing tomorrow. Cheers, FJP From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04DC16B005A for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:51:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Frans Pop Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Candidate fix for increased number of GFP_ATOMIC failures V2 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:51:02 +0200 References: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <1256221356-26049-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910241551.08291.elendil@planet.nl> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , Tobias Oetiker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Miller , Reinette Chatre , Kalle Valo , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mohamed Abbas , Jens Axboe , "John W. Linville" , Pekka Enberg , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stephan von Krawczynski , Kernel Testers List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org\"" List-ID: On Thursday 22 October 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > Since 2.6.31-rc1, there have been an increasing number of GFP_ATOMIC > failures. A significant number of these have been high-order GFP_ATOMIC > failures and while they are generally brushed away, there has been a > large increase in them recently and there are a number of possible areas > the problem could be in - core vm, page writeback and a specific driver. I needed a break and have thus been off-line for a few days. Good to see there's been progress. I'll try to do some testing tomorrow. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org