linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:57:57 +0900
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>,
	Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@...el.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 01:01:15PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:18:15AM +0900, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Waiting doesn't make it synchronous from the elevator point of view ;)
> > If you're using WB_SYNC_NONE, it's a async write.  WB_SYNC_ALL makes it
> > a sync write.  I only see WB_SYNC_NONE in vmscan.c, so we should be
> > using the async congestion wait.  (the exception is xfs which always
> > does async writes).
> 
> That's only because those people who did the global sweep did not bother
> to convert it or even tell the list about it.  I have a patch in my
> QA queue to change it..

Yes, we just didn't realize XFS was missed.  Sorry.  I wasn't trying to
blame xfs for being behind, just mentioning that we've got about 10
different variables here and I'm having a hard time figuring out which
ones to push on.

-chris

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