linux-kernel - Re: I have a blaze of 353 page allocation failures, all alike

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Message-ID: <4E1405C3.20904@q-leap.de>
Date:	Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:50:43 +0200
From:	Peter Kruse <pk@...eap.de>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
CC:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I have a blaze of 353 page allocation failures, all alike

Hi there,

thanks for looking into this!

On 07/05/2011 07:20 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There are also patches that should be in 2.6.32.29 like [e52af507:
> xfs: Non-blocking inode locking in IO completion] which talks
> about deadlocks during IO completion but the kernel name is
> 2.6.32.29-ql-server-20. Does that include this patch or is it some
> other fork?

it's not really a fork, we basically give the kernel a name.

Ok then I think we will schedule a kernel update and if the
server then runs for more than 40 days we could say that
the problem is fixed.

all the best,

  Peter
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