Hi KOSAKI, On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 05:22:11PM -0400, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > (8/1/13 12:21 AM), Bob Liu wrote: > >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. > > Just because I misunderstood the patch has already been merged. OK, I'll > resend this. Just FYI, Now Lisa am working on it and have a plan to resend more concrete description based on your old version. Thanks. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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>