linux-kernel - Re: kswapd0: excessive CPU usage

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Message-ID: <5093A631.5020209@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:53:37 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@...hat.com>
CC:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: kswapd0: excessive CPU usage

On 11/02/2012 11:44 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>>> Yes, applying this instead of the revert fixes the issue as well.
> 
> I've applied this patch on 3.7.0-rc3 kernel - and I still see excessive
> CPU usage - mainly  after  suspend/resume
> 
> Here is just simple  kswapd backtrace from running kernel:

Yup, this is what we were seeing with the former patch only too. Try to
apply the other one too:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1673231/

For me I would say, it is fixed by the two patches now. I won't be able
to report later, since I'm leaving to a conference tomorrow.

> kswapd0         R  running task        0    30      2 0x00000000
...
>  [<ffffffff81141e2a>] shrink_slab+0xba/0x510

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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