Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:06:19 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Tobi Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>,
       Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
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       Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
       Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
       Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>,
       "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures (generic)
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:01:45PM +0200, Karol Lewandowski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:54:11PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:49 +0200, Tobi Oetiker wrote:
> > > I have updated a fileserver to 2.6.31 today and I see page
> > > allocation failures from several parts of the system ... mostly nfs though ... (it is a nfs server).
> > > So I guess the problem must be quite generic:
> > 
> > Yup, it almost certainly is. Does this patch help?
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/16/89
> 
> This patch seems to help in some cases.  Before applying this patch I
> was able to trigger alloc failures on different machine by booting
> kernel with "mem=256MB" and doing:
> 
>   $ gitk on-full-tree &
>   # rmmod e100
>   ... wait for few MBs in swap
>   # modprobe e100; ifup --force ethX
> 
> So here this patch helped -- with it, I was unable to trigger page
> allocation failures (testing was short, tough).  However, as I said
> here[1], I applied both of Mel's patches (including this one) and that
> didn't help my orginal issue (failures after suspend).
> 
> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/17/109
> 

Can you test with my kswapd patch applied and commits 373c0a7e,8aa7e847
reverted please?

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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