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From: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
To: linux@horizon.com, mgorman@suse.de
Cc: dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, jack@suse.cz,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: 3.7-rc6 soft lockup in kswapd0
Date: 26 Nov 2012 08:05:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121126130504.29434.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121126100102.GH8218@suse.de>

Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> Ok, can you try this patch from Rik on top as well please? This is in
> addition to Dave Hansen's accounting fix.
> 
> ---8<---
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Subject: mm,vmscan: only loop back if compaction would fail in all zones

Booted and running.  Judging from the patch, the expected result is
"stops hanging", as opposed to more informative diagnostics, so I'll
keep you posted.

Peraonally, I like to use "bool" for such flags where possible;
it helps document the intent of the variable better.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 17:58 3.7-rc6 soft lockup in kswapd0 George Spelvin
2012-11-22 22:06 ` Jan Kara
2012-11-22 22:36   ` Jan Kara
2012-11-23  8:51   ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-23 10:02     ` George Spelvin
2012-11-24  7:52       ` George Spelvin
2012-11-26  3:58     ` George Spelvin
2012-11-26 10:01       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-26 13:05         ` George Spelvin [this message]
2012-11-26 18:32           ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-26 18:53             ` George Spelvin
2012-11-26 19:09               ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-27 21:25                 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-28 11:39                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 14:54                     ` George Spelvin
2012-11-29 15:20                       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 17:08                       ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-03 18:28                       ` George Spelvin

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