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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Commit f50de2d38 seems to be breaking my oom killer
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:10:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B46BE29.90207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100108130742.C138.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On 01/07/2010 11:08 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Commit f50de2d3 (vmscan: have kswapd sleep for a short interval and
> double check it should be asleep) can cause kswapd to enter an infinite
> loop if running on a single-CPU system. If all zones are unreclaimble,
> sleeping_prematurely return 1 and kswapd will call balance_pgdat()
> again. but it's totally meaningless, balance_pgdat() doesn't anything
> against unreclaimable zone!
>
> Cc: Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Reported-by: Will Newton<will.newton@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07 12:34 Commit f50de2d38 seems to be breaking my oom killer Will Newton
2010-01-07 13:58 ` Mel Gorman
2010-01-07 14:15   ` Will Newton
2010-01-07 14:49     ` Mel Gorman
2010-01-08  1:58   ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-08  2:56     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-08  4:08       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-08  4:53         ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-08  5:10         ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-01-08  9:25         ` Mel Gorman
2010-01-08  9:32           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-08 11:18         ` Will Newton
2010-01-10 14:37         ` Wu Fengguang

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