On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 05:35:59PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > But that shouldn't happen because the allocation path does cond_resched > even when nothing is really reclaimable (e.g. wait_iff_congested from > __alloc_pages_slowpath). cond_resched() isn't enough. The work item should go !RUNNING, not just yielding. -- tejun -- 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>