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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Root-causing kswapd spinning on Sandy Bridge laptops?
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:17:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110624191757.GA3805@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110624191334.GA31183@one.firstfloor.org>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:13:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Maybe the graphics driver could be still nicer the VM and perhaps
> be more aggressive in the callback?

Or just fix the nasty bugs in there, e.g. apply

[PATCH] i915: slab shrinker have to return -1 if it can't shrink any objects

which was sent to lkml today.  Also the first three patches from Dave
Chinners per-sb shrinker series, which fix two bugs in the core shrinker
code, and add tracing to it should help a lot.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-24 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24  6:22 Root-causing kswapd spinning on Sandy Bridge laptops? Andrew Lutomirski
2011-06-24  9:27 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-24  9:38   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-24 10:24   ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-24 12:15     ` Pádraig Brady
2011-06-24 12:51     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 13:32       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-06-24 18:44 ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-24 18:48   ` Andrew Lutomirski
2011-06-24 19:13     ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-24 19:17       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-06-24 18:54   ` Chris Mason
2011-06-27 11:03     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-27 20:18       ` James Bottomley

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