On Thursday 25 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote: > On 2/24/10, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote: ... > > > - while (to_free_normal > 0 && to_free_highmem > 0) { > > + while (to_free_normal > 0 || to_free_highmem > 0) { > > Yes, that seems to do it. No more hangs so far (and I can still > reproduce the hang with too many applications if I un-apply the > patch). OK, great. Is this with or without the NOIO-enforcing patch? > I did see a non-fatal allocation failure though, so I'm still not sure > that the current implementation is strictly correct. > > This is without the patch to increase "to_free_normal". If I get the > allocation failure again, should I try testing the "free 20% extra" > patch? Either that or try to increase SPARE_PAGES. That should actually work with the last patch applied. :-) Rafael -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>