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: 3 Dec 2012 13:28:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203182848.5536.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121129145414.9415.qmail@science.horizon.com>
> 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!
Further update, uptime is now 1 week with no more problems.
Just checked dmesg; no complaints. And kswapd0 is showing 0:09.08 of
CPU time for the week, more than cron but less than init.
Tested-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 18:28 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
2012-11-29 15:20 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 17:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-12-03 18:28 ` George Spelvin [this message]
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