Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:46:57 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V2 |
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Currently SLQB is not allowed to be configured on PPC and S390 machines as > CPUs can belong to memoryless nodes. SLQB does not deal with this very well > and crashes reliably. > > These patches fix the problem on PPC64 and it appears to be fairly stable. > At least, basic actions that were previously silently halting the machine > complete successfully.
I spoke too soon. Stress tests result in application failure, nothing to dmesg even with the patches applied so it looks like patch 2 is still the wrong way to fix the OOM-kill storm.
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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