On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:51:05AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > mm: compaction: Partially revert capture of suitable high-order page > > <snip> > > > Reported-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > > Thanks, my original use case and test works great after several hours! > > Tested-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> > Thanks very much Eric. I've resent the patch to Andrew so it should make its way to mainline. It'll fail to apply to 3.7-stable but I should get a notification from Greg when that happens and fix it up. > Unfortunately, I also hit a new bug in 3.8 (not in 3.7.x). based on Eric > Dumazet's observations, sk_stream_wait_memory may be to blame. > Fortunately this is easier to reproduce (I've cc-ed participants > on this thread already): <20130111004915.GA15415@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> It looks like the relevant fix for this has already been written by Eric Dumazet and picked up by David Miller. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>