Re: [PATCH v3] memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Thu Sep 20 2012 - 03:34:36 EST


Hi Yasuaki,

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:21:13PM +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> Hi Minchan,
>
> Sorry for late reply.
>
> 2012/09/20 15:43, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > During memory-hotplug, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE]
> > are increasing so that kernel are hang out.
>
> Why does your system hang out by increasing NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE]?
> I cannot understand what has happened by your system.

If system doesn't have enough free page, it goes reclaim path and never
reclaim any pages by too_many_isolated and loop forever.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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