Re: [PATCH]vmscan: fix a livelock in kswapd

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Jul 19 2011 - 04:45:23 EST


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm running a workload which triggers a lot of swap in a machine with 4 nodes.
> After I kill the workload, I found a kswapd livelock. Sometimes kswapd3 or
> kswapd2 are keeping running and I can't access filesystem, but most memory is
> free. This looks like a regression since commit 08951e545918c159.

Could you tell me what is 08951e545918c159?
You mean [ebd64e21ec5a,
mm-vmscan-only-read-new_classzone_idx-from-pgdat-when-reclaiming-successfully]
?


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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