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Message-ID: <20121129170843.GJ2301@cmpxchg.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:08:43 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> To: George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com> Cc: mgorman@...e.de, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, 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 Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:54:14AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > >> 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. > > 14:53:54 up 2 days, 19:35, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.23 > > Almost three days, when it wouldn't live overnight before. > As promised, I'm declaring victory. > > The patch that worked (on top of -rc7) was Johannes Weiner's > "mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing" > that added the zone_balanced() function to mm/vmscan.c:2400. Thanks for testing! Love, Georgina -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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