From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, sachinp@in.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V2
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:46:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090921174656.GS12726@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253549426-917-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Currently SLQB is not allowed to be configured on PPC and S390 machines as
> CPUs can belong to memoryless nodes. SLQB does not deal with this very well
> and crashes reliably.
>
> These patches fix the problem on PPC64 and it appears to be fairly stable.
> At least, basic actions that were previously silently halting the machine
> complete successfully.
I spoke too soon. Stress tests result in application failure, nothing to
dmesg even with the patches applied so it looks like patch 2 is still the
wrong way to fix the OOM-kill storm.
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-21 16:10 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V2 Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Allocate per-cpu areas for node IDs for SLQB to use as per-node areas Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 17:17 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-21 17:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-09-21 17:29 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-21 17:42 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 0:01 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-22 9:32 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] slqb: Record what node is local to a kmem_cache_cpu Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] slqb: Allow SLQB to be used on PPC Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 9:30 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-09-22 9:32 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 17:46 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2009-09-21 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V2 Christoph Lameter
2009-09-21 18:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 18:07 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 18:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-22 10:05 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 10:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-22 10:24 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 5:03 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-22 10:07 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 12:55 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 13:05 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-22 13:20 ` Mel Gorman
[not found] ` <363172900909220629j2f5174cbo9fe027354948d37@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-22 13:38 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 23:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-22 0:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-22 0:19 ` David Rientjes
2009-09-22 6:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-22 7:59 ` David Rientjes
2009-09-22 8:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-22 8:44 ` David Rientjes
2009-09-22 15:26 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 17:31 ` David Rientjes
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