From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:49:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324114930.GG21147@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100324023837.GH4359@suse.de>
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:38:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50:54PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > 2. TTY using high order allocations more frequently
> > fix title: ttyfix
> > fixed in mainline? yes, in 2.6.34-rc2
> > affects: 2.6.31 to 2.6.34-rc1
> >
> > 2.6.31 made pty's use the same buffering logic as tty. Unfortunately,
> > it was also allowed to make high-order GFP_ATOMIC allocations. This
> > triggers some high-order reclaim and introduces some stalls. It's
> > fixed in 2.6.34-rc2 but needs back-porting.
>
> It will go to the other stable kernels for their next round of releases
> now that it is in Linus's tree.
>
Great.
> > Next Steps
> > ==========
> >
> > Jens, any problems with me backporting the async/sync fixes from 2.6.31 to
> > 2.6.30.x (assuming that is still maintained, Greg?)?
>
> No, .30 is no longer being maintained.
>
Right, I won't lose any sleep over 2.6.30.dodo so :)
Thanks
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:49:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324114930.GG21147@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100324023837.GH4359@suse.de>
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:38:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:50:54PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > 2. TTY using high order allocations more frequently
> > fix title: ttyfix
> > fixed in mainline? yes, in 2.6.34-rc2
> > affects: 2.6.31 to 2.6.34-rc1
> >
> > 2.6.31 made pty's use the same buffering logic as tty. Unfortunately,
> > it was also allowed to make high-order GFP_ATOMIC allocations. This
> > triggers some high-order reclaim and introduces some stalls. It's
> > fixed in 2.6.34-rc2 but needs back-porting.
>
> It will go to the other stable kernels for their next round of releases
> now that it is in Linus's tree.
>
Great.
> > Next Steps
> > ==========
> >
> > Jens, any problems with me backporting the async/sync fixes from 2.6.31 to
> > 2.6.30.x (assuming that is still maintained, Greg?)?
>
> No, .30 is no longer being maintained.
>
Right, I won't lose any sleep over 2.6.30.dodo so :)
Thanks
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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2010-03-08 11:48 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Under memory pressure, wait on pressure to relieve instead of congestion Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 13:35 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 13:35 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 14:17 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 14:17 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 15:03 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 15:03 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 15:42 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-09 15:42 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-09 18:22 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 18:22 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-10 2:38 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-10 2:38 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 17:35 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 17:35 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-10 2:35 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-10 2:35 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 15:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 15:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 15:56 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-09 15:56 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-09 16:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 16:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 17:01 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 17:01 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 17:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 17:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-09 17:30 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 17:30 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] page-allocator: Check zone pressure when batch of pages are freed Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 9:53 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 9:53 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:08 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:08 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:23 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:23 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 11:11 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 11:11 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 11:29 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 11:29 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: Put kswapd to sleep on its own waitqueue, not congestion Mel Gorman
2010-03-08 11:48 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:21 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:21 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-09 10:32 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-09 10:32 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-11 23:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure Andrew Morton
2010-03-11 23:41 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-12 6:39 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-12 6:39 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-12 7:05 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-12 7:05 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-12 10:47 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-12 10:47 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-12 12:15 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-12 12:15 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-12 14:37 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-12 14:37 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-15 12:29 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-15 12:29 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-15 14:45 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-15 14:45 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-15 12:34 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-15 12:34 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-15 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-15 20:09 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-16 10:11 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-16 10:11 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-18 17:42 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-18 17:42 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-22 23:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-22 23:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-23 14:35 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-23 14:35 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-03-23 21:35 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-03-23 21:35 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-03-24 11:48 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-24 11:48 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-24 12:56 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-03-24 12:56 ` Corrado Zoccolo
2010-03-23 22:29 ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-23 22:29 ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-24 14:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-24 14:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-19 12:22 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-19 12:22 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-19 21:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-19 21:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-20 7:20 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-20 7:20 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-20 8:54 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-20 8:54 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-20 15:32 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-20 15:32 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-20 17:22 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-20 17:22 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21 4:23 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21 4:23 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21 7:35 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21 7:35 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21 13:19 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21 13:19 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-22 6:21 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-22 6:21 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 10:59 ` Subject: [PATCH][RFC] mm: make working set portion that is protected tunable v2 Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 10:59 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 11:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-26 11:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-26 12:43 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 12:43 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-26 14:20 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-26 14:20 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-27 14:00 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-27 14:00 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-21 9:03 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Avoid the use of congestion_wait under zone pressure Johannes Weiner
2010-04-21 9:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-21 13:20 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21 13:20 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-20 14:40 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-20 14:40 ` Rik van Riel
2010-03-24 2:38 ` Greg KH
2010-03-24 2:38 ` Greg KH
2010-03-24 11:49 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2010-03-24 11:49 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-24 13:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-24 13:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-03-12 9:09 ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-12 9:09 ` Mel Gorman
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