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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: 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 09:31:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4172741D.1090800@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041016182116.33b3b788.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>>Can we get a sysrq-M dump from that machine please?
>>
>> alas, for the 'hang' case, my during-initscripts console is going to 
>> strange place.  here's sysrq-m from 2.6.9-rc3-bk4 with the mm/vmscan.c 
>> patch reverted (the its-fixed version).
> 
> 
> Is cool - I was wondering if you had the same funny NUMA zone layout.  You
> do not.
> 
> So there's some new non-terminating condition in there.  It's definitely
> the case that we're still failing to throttle kswapd as we should be doing,
> but I left it as-is due to lack of reported problems (hah) and because the
> fix does cause less reclaim via kswapd and more reclaim via direct reclaim.
> 
> Still.  The relevant patches, in order, are at
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/broken-out:
> 
> vmscan-total_scanned-fix.patch
> revert-vm-no-wild-kswapd.patch
> balance_pgdat-cleanup.patch
> no-wild-kswapd-2.patch
> no-wild-kswapd-kswapd-continue.patch
> 
> I expect the first one will fix this up.   Can you confirm?


FWIW, I verified that "vmscan-total_scanned-fix.patch" fixes the hang on 
both 2.6.9-rc3-bk4 and 2.6.9-final.

	Jeff



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-17 13:31 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 [this message]
2004-10-17  1:24           ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-17  2:16             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17  2:19               ` Nick Piggin
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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