On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >
> > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198
>1
> > > ^^^^^
> > > > Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they can't
> > > > block on IO, so they loop insanely).
> > >
> > > Why doesn't the VM hang the syncing of queued IO on these guys via
> > > wait_event or such instead of trying to just let the allocation fail?
> ...
> > > Does failing the allocation in fact accomplish more than what I'm
> > > (uhoh:) assuming?
> >
> > No.
>
> hmm..
>
> Jun 18 07:11:36 kernel: reclaim_page: salvaged ref:1 age:0 buf:0 cnt:1
> Jun 18 07:11:36 last message repeated 27 times
>
> One thing that _could_ be done about looping allocations is to steal
> a page from the clean list ignoring PageReferenced (if you have any).
> That would be a very expensive 'rob Peter to pay Paul' trade though.
Don't like it.
This goes against the aging logic.
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