Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754883AbZLNItf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:49:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754038AbZLNIte (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:49:34 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com ([209.85.211.182]:57372 "EHLO mail-yw0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754013AbZLNItd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:49:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jrHWcFZQuEqhd7GFnkZfQWNCGoPJM/wxdsAQqTWQnVAQa8vhTAwxMuXi3jTwyrew6p 8gmE/ezDEy/hQKdKKJgsz0OgjKcNvkGNZMWBIKAYUs1adtTbAatT9RcCT/OrWyCL61fF kOSkxvTZwLGQF7mHZp1VrRxQp0MOT9zVEvk/8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20091113142608.33B9.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20091113181557.GM29804@csn.ul.ie> <2f11576a0911131033w4a9e6042k3349f0be290a167e@mail.gmail.com> <20091113200357.GO29804@csn.ul.ie> <20091202113241.GC1457@csn.ul.ie> <4e5e476b0912031226i5b0e6cf9hdfd5519182ccdefa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:49:32 +0100 Message-ID: <4e5e476b0912140049x29d2905epf1a21bfdbd1709a6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: still getting allocation failures (was Re: [PATCH] vmscan: Stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met V2) From: Corrado Zoccolo To: Tobias Oetiker Cc: Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , KOSAKI Motohiro , Frans Pop , Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Pekka Enberg , Rik van Riel , Christoph Lameter , Stephan von Krawczynski , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Kernel Testers List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2328 Lines: 60 Hi Tobi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi Corrado, > > Dec 3 Corrado Zoccolo wrote: > >> Hi Tobias, >> does the patch in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/30/301 help with your >> high order allocation problems? >> It seems that you have lot of memory, but high order pages do not show up. >> The patch should make them more likely to appear. >> On my machine (that has much less ram than yours), with the patch, I >> always have order-10 pages available. > > I have tried it and ... it does not work, the  page allocation > failure still shows. BUT while testing it on two machines I found that it > only shows on on machine. The workload on the two machines is > similar (they both run virtualbox) and also the available memory. Where those both failing before the patch? Did the order of failure change? > Could it be caused by a hardware driver ? It should be something that is taking more time to release pages, but I don't know what can it be. What happens if you drop the caches when you are getting failures? Does the failure rate drops as if you had just rebooted? Can you log at regular intervals the content of /proc/buddyinfo, and try correlating when the number of pages of the requested order are becoming scarce with some other event? Thanks, Corrado > > cheers > tobi > > -- > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland > http://it.oetiker.ch tobi@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 > -- __________________________________________________________________________ dott. Corrado Zoccolo mailto:czoccolo@gmail.com PhD - Department of Computer Science - University of Pisa, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The self-confidence of a warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. Tales of Power - C. Castaneda -- 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/