Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261233AbVBDBUb (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:20:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263333AbVBDBTW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:19:22 -0500 Received: from smtp200.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.125]:50770 "HELO smtp200.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263098AbVBDA4i (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:56:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4202C839.8000103@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:56:25 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?77+9?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.10: kswapd spins like crazy References: <20050203195033.29314.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> <4202BE05.9090901@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4202BE05.9090901@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060502050903040208020601" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1653 Lines: 39 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060502050903040208020601 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nick Piggin wrote: > Hmm, your DMA zone has no active pages, and pages_scanned (which > triggers all_unreclaimable) > is only incremented when scanning the active list. But I wonder, if the > pages can't be > freed, why aren't they being put on the active list? Oh, attached should be a minimal fix if you would like to try it out. --------------060502050903040208020601 Content-Type: text/plain; name="vmscan-minfix.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="vmscan-minfix.patch" CgoKLS0tCgogbGludXgtMi42LW5waWdnaW4vbW0vdm1zY2FuLmMgfCAgICAxICsKIDEgZmls ZXMgY2hhbmdlZCwgMSBpbnNlcnRpb24oKykKCmRpZmYgLXB1TiBtbS92bXNjYW4uY352bXNj YW4tbWluZml4IG1tL3Ztc2Nhbi5jCi0tLSBsaW51eC0yLjYvbW0vdm1zY2FuLmN+dm1zY2Fu LW1pbmZpeAkyMDA1LTAyLTA0IDExOjUyOjM3LjAwMDAwMDAwMCArMTEwMAorKysgbGludXgt Mi42LW5waWdnaW4vbW0vdm1zY2FuLmMJMjAwNS0wMi0wNCAxMTo1MzozMi4wMDAwMDAwMDAg KzExMDAKQEAgLTU3NSw2ICs1NzUsNyBAQCBzdGF0aWMgdm9pZCBzaHJpbmtfY2FjaGUoc3Ry dWN0IHpvbmUgKnpvCiAJCQlucl90YWtlbisrOwogCQl9CiAJCXpvbmUtPm5yX2luYWN0aXZl IC09IG5yX3Rha2VuOworCQl6b25lLT5wYWdlc19zY2FubmVkICs9IG5yX3NjYW47CiAJCXNw aW5fdW5sb2NrX2lycSgmem9uZS0+bHJ1X2xvY2spOwogCiAJCWlmIChucl90YWtlbiA9PSAw KQoKXwo= --------------060502050903040208020601-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/