Hi KOSAKI, On 08/01/2013 10:45 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Please read more older code. Your pointed code is temporary change and I > changed back for fixing > bugs. > If you look at the status in middle direct reclaim, we can't avoid race > condition from multi direct > reclaim issues. Moreover, if kswapd doesn't awaken, it is a problem. > This is a reason why current code > behave as you described. > I agree we should fix your issue as far as possible. But I can't agree > your analysis. > I found this thread: mm, vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/14/74 I think that's the same issue Lisa met. But I didn't find out why your patch didn't get merged? There were already many acks. -- Regards, -Bob -- 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>