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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: Hang on x86-64, 2.6.9-rc3-bk4
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:19:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4171D6A0.4030200@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4171D5F8.8050504@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>> diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~vm-fix mm/vmscan.c
>> --- linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c~vm-fix    2004-10-17 11:14:02.000000000 +1000
>> +++ linux-2.6-npiggin/mm/vmscan.c    2004-10-17 11:20:55.000000000 +1000
>> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int shrink_slab(unsigned long sca
>>      struct shrinker *shrinker;
>>  
>>      if (scanned == 0)
>> -        return 0;
>> +        scanned = 1;
>>  
>>      if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))
>>          return 0;
>> @@ -1065,7 +1065,8 @@ scan:
>>              total_reclaimed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
>>              if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
>>                  continue;
>> -            if (zone->pages_scanned > zone->present_pages * 2)
>> +            if (zone->pages_scanned > (zone->nr_active +
>> +                            zone->nr_inactive) * 4)
>>                  zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
>>              /*
>>               * If we've done a decent amount of scanning and
> 
> 
> 
> Nope, this patch does not fix the hang.
> 

Arrgh, sorry that should be
	if (zone->pages_scanned *>=* blah)

If you've got zero LRU pages, both sides of this should be zero, and
we *want* all_unreclaimable to be set.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-17  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-16 21:40 Hang on x86-64, 2.6.9-rc3-bk4 Jeff Garzik
2004-10-16 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-16 22:48   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-16 23:43     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  0:14       ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-17  0:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  0:28           ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-17  0:51         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  1:21           ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-17  3:39             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  5:46               ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 13:30                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 13:49                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 14:00                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 14:19                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17 13:31             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  1:24           ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17  2:16             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  2:19               ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-10-17  2:31                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17  3:10                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  3:20                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17  3:05                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  3:07                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17  3:13                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-18 18:45               ` Jeff Garzik

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