Re: Easy portable testcase! (Re: Kernel falls apart under light memory pressure (i.e. linking vmlinux))

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 08:28:46PM -0400, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It works only if the zone meets high watermark. If allocation is
> >> faster than reclaim(ie, it's true for slow swap device), the zone
> >> would remain congested.
> >> It means swapout would block.
> >> As we see the OOM log, we can know that DMA32 zone can't meet high watermark.
> >>
> >> Does my guessing make sense?
> >
> > Hi Andrew.
> > I got failed your scenario in my machine so could you be willing to
> > test this patch for proving my above scenario?
> > The patch is just revert patch of 0e093d99[do not sleep on the
> > congestion queue...] for 2.6.38.6.
> > I would like to test it for proving my above zone congestion scenario.
> >
> > I did it based on 2.6.38.6 for your easy apply so you must apply it
> > cleanly on vanilla v2.6.38.6.
> > And you have to add !pgdat_balanced and shrink_slab patch.
> 
> No, because my laptop just decided that it doesn't like to turn on. :(
> 
> I'll test it on my VM on Tuesday and (fingers crossed) on my repaired
> laptop next weekend.

Any updates on this?