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From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@googlemail.com>,
	alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:17:44 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D63F6C0.7060204@internode.on.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110222161513.GC13092@random.random>



Andrea Arcangeli wrote, on 23/02/11 02:45:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:40:47PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>>   	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
>>   	for (; low_pfn<  end_pfn; low_pfn++) {
>>   		struct page *page;
>> +
>> +		cond_resched();
>> +
>
> my bad, see the above spin_lock_irq oops...
>
> I attached two replacement patches to apply in order (both of them
> should be applied at the same time on top of git upstream, and they
> shouldn't lockup this time).

OK, these patches applied together against upstream didn't cause a crash 
but I did observe:

significant slowdowns of MIDI playback (moreso than in previous cases, 
and with less than 20 Meg of swap file in use);

kswapd0 sharing equal top place in CPU usage at times (e.g. 20 percent).

If I should try only one of the patches or something else entirely, 
please let me know.

Regards,

Arthur.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <g0ia38-jj6.ln1@ppp121-45-136-118.lns11.adl6.internode.on.net>
2011-02-22  7:37 ` [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0 Clemens Ladisch
2011-02-22  7:46   ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-22 13:40   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 16:15     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 16:59       ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 17:08         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 17:37           ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 17:47       ` Arthur Marsh [this message]
2011-02-22 19:43         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23  9:15           ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 11:41             ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 13:50               ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-02-23 17:01               ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 17:40                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:24         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:36           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:40             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:47               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:55           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 20:07             ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 21:25               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 21:55                 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 23:59                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-24  1:40                     ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-24  1:54                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-26  6:43                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-27  8:48                           ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 17:10           ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 17:27             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 17:44               ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 18:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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