From: Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>
To: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: User mode stalls - can it be...?
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 02:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3962874A.190AAC7E@norran.net> (raw)
Hi,
I have an idea why we get the stalls!
If we end up in a situation where our write attempts are rejected
due to lack of resources - we will continue happily with next and
next...
Count hits zero and we return
But kswapd finds out that there is more to do and calls another
shrink_mmap...
(and need_resched is not set due to lower priority)
Gives, busy wait in shrink_mmap until pages are written...
I tried to renice 15 kswapd with improved results (I am using my patched
kernels)
Another approach would be to always sleep...
/RogerL
(Sent privately to Quintela and Riel - but it might be of value for
someone else too...)
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next reply other threads:[~2000-07-05 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-05 0:54 Roger Larsson [this message]
2000-07-05 1:29 ` User mode stalls - can it be...? Roger Larsson
2000-07-05 13:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-05 19:26 ` Roger Larsson
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