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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:24:42 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
CC:	lwoodman@...hat.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, aarcange@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmscan: limit concurrent reclaimers in shrink_zone

On 12/10/2009 09:03 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Rik van Riel<riel@...hat.com>  wrote:
>> Under very heavy multi-process workloads, like AIM7, the VM can
>> get into trouble in a variety of ways.  The trouble start when
>> there are hundreds, or even thousands of processes active in the
>> page reclaim code.

> Otherwise looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@...il.com>

OK, we found three issues with my patch :)

1) there is a typo in sysctl.c

2) there is another typo in Documentation/vm/sysctl.c

3) the code in vmscan.c has a bug, where tasks without
     __GFP_IO or __GFP_FS can end up waiting for tasks
     with __GFP_IO or __GFP_FS, leading to a deadlock

I will fix these issues and send out a new patch.

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