From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: "P. Christeas" <xrg@linux.gr>,
Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Early test: hangs in mm/compact.c w. Linus's 12d7aacab56e9ef185c
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 10:35:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545F3556.5000802@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433036.WjB5pb09Zh@xorhgos3.pefnos>
On 11/09/2014 09:22 AM, P. Christeas wrote:
> On Sunday 09 November 2014, Hillf Danton wrote:
>> - return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
>> + return COMPACT_SKIPPED;
>
> I guess this one would mitigate against Vlastmil's migration scanner issue,
> wouldn't it?
Please no, that's a wrong fix. The purpose of compaction is to make the
high-order watermark meet, not give up.
> In that case, I should wait a bit[1] to try the first patch, then revert, try
> yours and (hopefully) have some results.
I hope my patch will be enough,
> Then, apply both.
>
> [1] trying to push the vm by loading memory-hungry apps and random load.
Maybe the tools/testing/selftests/vm/transhuge-stress could help
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-09 4:47 Early test: hangs in mm/compact.c w. Linus's 12d7aacab56e9ef185c Hillf Danton
2014-11-09 8:22 ` P. Christeas
2014-11-09 9:35 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2014-11-10 3:23 ` Hillf Danton
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2014-11-04 7:26 P. Christeas
2014-11-04 8:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-04 9:36 ` P. Christeas
2014-11-05 15:26 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-05 16:02 ` P. Christeas
2014-11-06 19:23 ` P. Christeas
2014-11-06 21:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-08 13:11 ` P. Christeas
2014-11-08 22:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-09 8:27 ` Pavel Machek
2014-11-09 9:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-09 22:32 ` Norbert Preining
2014-11-10 6:07 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-11-10 7:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-10 8:05 ` Joonsoo Kim
2014-11-10 8:14 ` P. Christeas
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