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Message-ID: <20121128113920.GU8218@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:39:20 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, hannes@...xchg.org, jack@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: 3.7-rc6 soft lockup in kswapd0

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:53:17PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> >> Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
> >>> Any chance you could test with this fix instead, in addition to Dave's
> >>> accounting fix?  It's got bool and everything!
> > 
> >> Okay.  Mel, speak up if you object.  I also rebased on top of 3.7-rc7,
> >> which already includes Dave's fix.  Again, speak up if that's a bad idea.
> > 
> > No objections all round.
> 
> Well, it just made it to 24 hours, 
> it did before.  I'm going to wait a couple more days before declaring
> victory, but it looks good so far.
> 
>  19:19:10 up 1 day, 0 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.20, 0.22
>  21:24:05 up 1 day,  2:05,  2 users,  load average: 0.25, 0.19, 0.18

Superb. The relevant patches *should* be in flight for 3.7 assuming they
make it through the confusion of last-minute fixes.

Thanks

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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