On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Lutz Vieweg <lvml@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/21/2011 06:01 PM, Ying Han wrote: >> >> The following patch might not be the root-cause of livelock, but >> should reduce the [kworker/*] in your case. >> >> From d1372da4d3c6f8051b5b1cf7b5e8b45a8094b388 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> >> Can you give a try? > > I will first need to move this test to a machine (like my Laptop) > that I can more aggressively reboot without disturbing the > developers on the shared hardware. Will do that asap. > >> I don't know which kernel you are using in case >> you don't have this patched yet. > > 2.6.39. > 5 out of 6 hunks in your patch apply to this version, 1 is rejected - > so I guess I should upgrade to a more recent kernel, first. > Would 2.6.39.1 be sufficient or would some non-release kernel > (from which git repository?) be required? Last time I tried was build on mmotm-2011-05-12-15-52 with the patch. But I assume you can also patch it on top of 2.6.39. Meantime, I am trying to reproduce your livelock on my host with kernbench. --Ying > > Regards, > > Lutz Vieweg > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href