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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:19:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5AD686.9040503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100805151125.31BA.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On 08/05/2010 02:12 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> From: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>
> Fix "system goes unresponsive under memory pressure and lots of
> dirty/writeback pages" bug.
>
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/4/86
>
> In the above thread, Andreas Mohr described that
>
> 	Invoking any command locked up for minutes (note that I'm
> 	talking about attempted additional I/O to the _other_,
> 	_unaffected_ main system HDD - such as loading some shell
> 	binaries -, NOT the external SSD18M!!).
>
> This happens when the two conditions are both meet:
> - under memory pressure
> - writing heavily to a slow device

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

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-05 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-05  6:11 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] low latency synchrounous lumpy reclaim KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05  6:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 15:02   ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-08  6:42     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 15:19   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-08-05  6:13 ` [PATCH 2/7] vmscan: synchronous lumpy reclaim don't call congestion_wait() KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 13:55   ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-05 15:05   ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-05 15:06   ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-05  6:13 ` [PATCH 3/7] vmscan: synchrounous lumpy reclaim use lock_page() instead trylock_page() KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 14:17   ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-06  0:52     ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-05 15:12   ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-05 15:26   ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-05  6:14 ` [PATCH 4/7] vmscan: narrowing synchrounous lumply reclaim condition KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 14:59   ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-27 16:41   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-10-27 17:16     ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-27 18:03       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-10-28  8:00         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-28 15:12           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-10-29  2:23             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-28 10:20         ` Mel Gorman
2010-11-02  2:04           ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-28  2:31     ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-10-28 15:22       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-08-05  6:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] vmscan: kill dead code in shrink_inactive_list() KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 15:08   ` Minchan Kim
2010-08-05 15:14   ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-05  6:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] vmscan: remove PF_SWAPWRITE from __zone_reclaim() KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05  6:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] vmscan: isolated_lru_pages() stop neighbor search if neighbor can't be isolated KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05 15:25   ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-05 15:40   ` Minchan Kim

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