From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: Hang on x86-64, 2.6.9-rc3-bk4
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:31:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4172741D.1090800@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041016182116.33b3b788.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>>Can we get a sysrq-M dump from that machine please?
>>
>> alas, for the 'hang' case, my during-initscripts console is going to
>> strange place. here's sysrq-m from 2.6.9-rc3-bk4 with the mm/vmscan.c
>> patch reverted (the its-fixed version).
>
>
> Is cool - I was wondering if you had the same funny NUMA zone layout. You
> do not.
>
> So there's some new non-terminating condition in there. It's definitely
> the case that we're still failing to throttle kswapd as we should be doing,
> but I left it as-is due to lack of reported problems (hah) and because the
> fix does cause less reclaim via kswapd and more reclaim via direct reclaim.
>
> Still. The relevant patches, in order, are at
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/broken-out:
>
> vmscan-total_scanned-fix.patch
> revert-vm-no-wild-kswapd.patch
> balance_pgdat-cleanup.patch
> no-wild-kswapd-2.patch
> no-wild-kswapd-kswapd-continue.patch
>
> I expect the first one will fix this up. Can you confirm?
FWIW, I verified that "vmscan-total_scanned-fix.patch" fixes the hang on
both 2.6.9-rc3-bk4 and 2.6.9-final.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-17 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-16 21:40 Hang on x86-64, 2.6.9-rc3-bk4 Jeff Garzik
2004-10-16 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-16 22:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-16 23:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 0:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-17 0:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-17 0:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 1:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-17 3:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 5:46 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 13:49 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 14:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 14:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 13:31 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-17 1:24 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 2:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 2:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 3:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 3:20 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 3:07 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 3:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-18 18:45 ` Jeff Garzik
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