Re: Hang on x86-64, 2.6.9-rc3-bk4

[Jeff Garzik]

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.

Heading for Andrew's pile...

	Jeff


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