Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758220AbZJEGvo (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 02:51:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756836AbZJEGvn (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 02:51:43 -0400 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml103.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.7]:60313 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML103.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756769AbZJEGvm (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 02:51:42 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:50:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , "Pekka Enberg" , Reinette Chatre , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Karol Lewandowski , linux-mm@kvack.org References: <3onW63eFtRF.A.xXH.oMTxKB@chimera> <200910021111.55749.elendil@planet.nl> <200910050714.01908.elendil@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <200910050714.01908.elendil@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910050851.02056.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Oct 2009 06:51:05.0166 (UTC) FILETIME=[35A9A6E0:01CA4588] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2957 Lines: 51 On Monday 05 October 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I'll dig into this a bit more as it looks like this should be > reproducible, probably even without the kernel build. Next step is to > see how .30 behaves in the same situation. This looks conclusive. I tested .30 and .32-rc3 from clean reboots and only starting gitk. I only started music playing in the background (amarok) from an NFS share to ensure network activity. With .32-rc3 I got 4 SKB allocation errors while starting the *second* gitk instance. And the system was completely frozen with music stopped until gitk finished loading. With .30 I was able to start *three* gitk's (which meant 2 of them got (partially) swapped out) without any allocation errors. And with the system remaining relatively responsive. There was a short break in the music while I started the 2nd instance, but it just continued playing afterwards. There was also some mild latency in the mouse cursor, but nothing like the full desktop freeze I get with .32-rc3. With .30 I looked at /proc/buddyinfo while the 3rd gitk was being started, and that looked fairly healthy all the time: Node 0, zone DMA 5 9 22 20 21 11 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 579 67 25 8 5 1 1 0 1 1 0 Node 0, zone DMA 5 9 22 20 21 11 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 276 54 13 15 8 10 3 1 1 1 0 Node 0, zone DMA 4 9 22 20 21 11 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 119 45 24 18 12 4 5 2 1 1 0 Node 0, zone DMA 4 9 22 20 21 11 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 527 13 9 5 5 3 2 1 1 1 0 Node 0, zone DMA 5 9 22 20 21 11 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 1375 24 7 7 8 5 1 1 0 1 0 Node 0, zone DMA 5 9 22 20 21 11 0 0 0 0 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 329 21 3 3 17 8 5 1 0 1 0 With .32 it was obviously impossible to get that info due to the total freeze of the desktop. Not sure if the scheduler changes in .32 contribute to this. Guess I could find out by doing the same test with .31. One thing I should mention: my swap is an LVM volume that's in a VG that's on a LUKS encrypted partition. Does this give you enough info to go on, or should I try a bisection? Cheers, FJP -- 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/