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: 29 Nov 2012 09:54:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121129145414.9415.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121128113920.GU8218@suse.de>
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
>> Well, it just made it to 24 hours,
>> it did before. I'm going to wait a couple more days before declaring
>> victory, but it looks good so far.
>>
>> 19:19:10 up 1 day, 0 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.20, 0.22
>> 21:24:05 up 1 day, 2:05, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.19, 0.18
>
> Superb. The relevant patches *should* be in flight for 3.7 assuming they
> make it through the confusion of last-minute fixes.
14:53:54 up 2 days, 19:35, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.23
Almost three days, when it wouldn't live overnight before.
As promised, I'm declaring victory.
The patch that worked (on top of -rc7) was Johannes Weiner's
"mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing"
that added the zone_balanced() function to mm/vmscan.c:2400.
Thank you all very much!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-29 14:54 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
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 [this message]
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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