From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752610Ab1GFGut (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:50:49 -0400 Received: from ns2.q-leap.de ([88.79.172.217]:39733 "EHLO mail.q-leap.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752409Ab1GFGus (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:50:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4E1405C3.20904@q-leap.de> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:50:43 +0200 From: Peter Kruse Organization: Q-Leap Networks GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Chinner CC: Mel Gorman , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I have a blaze of 353 page allocation failures, all alike References: <272bf0cc51439a2ab31ee2f06317dd9f.squirrel@www.q-leap.de> <4D6648B5.1090306@q-leap.com> <4DA4692D.7080207@q-leap.de> <4DA54D2A.3050206@q-leap.de> <4E09BEA1.1080501@q-leap.de> <20110705172043.GA15147@csn.ul.ie> <20110706041602.GX1026@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20110706041602.GX1026@dastard> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi there, thanks for looking into this! On 07/05/2011 07:20 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > There are also patches that should be in 2.6.32.29 like [e52af507: > xfs: Non-blocking inode locking in IO completion] which talks > about deadlocks during IO completion but the kernel name is > 2.6.32.29-ql-server-20. Does that include this patch or is it some > other fork? it's not really a fork, we basically give the kernel a name. Ok then I think we will schedule a kernel update and if the server then runs for more than 40 days we could say that the problem is fixed. all the best, Peter