From: "Alex Villacís Lasso" <avillaci@fiec.espol.edu.ec>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec,
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 31142] New: Large write to USB stick freezes unrelated tasks for a long time
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:36:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D877070.2000209@fiec.espol.edu.ec> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D876D43.3020409@fiec.espol.edu.ec>
El 21/03/11 10:22, Alex Villaci-s Lasso escribio:
> El 21/03/11 08:48, Andrea Arcangeli escribio:
>>
>> ===
>> Subject: mm: compaction: Use async migration for __GFP_NO_KSWAPD and enforce no writeback
>>
>> From: Andrea Arcangeli<aarcange@redhat.com>
>>
>> __GFP_NO_KSWAPD allocations are usually very expensive and not mandatory
>> to succeed as they have graceful fallback. Waiting for I/O in those, tends
>> to be overkill in terms of latencies, so we can reduce their latency by
>> disabling sync migrate.
>>
>> Unfortunately, even with async migration it's still possible for the
>> process to be blocked waiting for a request slot (e.g. get_request_wait
>> in the block layer) when ->writepage is called. To prevent __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
>> blocking, this patch prevents ->writepage being called on dirty page cache
>> for asynchronous migration.
>>
>> [mel@csn.ul.ie: Avoid writebacks for NFS, retry locked pages, use bool]
>> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli<aarcange@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie>
>> ---
>> mm/migrate.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> The latest patch fails to apply in vanilla 2.6.38:
>
> [alex@srv64 linux-2.6.38]$ patch -p1 --dry-run < ../\[Bug\ 31142\]\ Large\ write\ to\ USB\ stick\ freezes\ unrelated\ tasks\ for\ a\ long\ time.eml
> (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
> patching file mm/migrate.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 564.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 586.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 641.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 686.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 757.
> Hunk #6 FAILED at 850.
> 6 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file mm/migrate.c.rej
> (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
> patching file mm/page_alloc.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 2085.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file mm/page_alloc.c.rej
>
> I will try to apply the patch manually.
>
After some massaging, I succeeded in applying the patch. Compiling now.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-31142-10286@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2011-03-15 20:53 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 31142] New: Large write to USB stick freezes unrelated tasks for a long time Andrew Morton
2011-03-15 22:53 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-15 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-16 15:25 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-16 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-17 21:27 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-17 21:47 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-17 22:11 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-17 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-18 11:13 ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-18 12:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-18 18:05 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-19 13:46 ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-19 16:04 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-19 23:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-21 9:41 ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-21 13:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-21 15:22 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-21 15:36 ` Alex Villacís Lasso [this message]
2011-03-21 15:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-21 16:37 ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-21 17:05 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-21 20:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-21 23:35 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-22 11:20 ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-22 15:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-22 20:34 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-03-22 21:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-23 0:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-23 16:51 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-04-04 15:37 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-04-08 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-04-08 20:06 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-04-12 16:27 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-04-14 17:25 ` Alex Villacís Lasso
2011-04-14 17:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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