From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26506B0026 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:26:49 +0200 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: If kswapd has been running too long, allow it to sleep Message-ID: <20110516152649.GU16531@cmpxchg.org> References: <1305558417-24354-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1305558417-24354-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1305558417-24354-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , Colin King , Raghavendra D Prabhu , Jan Kara , Chris Mason , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Rik van Riel , Minchan Kim , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , linux-kernel , linux-ext4 , stable On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 04:06:57PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Under constant allocation pressure, kswapd can be in the situation where > sleeping_prematurely() will always return true even if kswapd has been > running a long time. Check if kswapd needs to be scheduled. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org