Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:16:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: khugepaged: gets stuck when writing to USB flash, 2.6.38-rc2 | From | Jindřich Makovička <> |
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 20:06, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:24:08PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: >> This is very likely. Compaction calls into migration which will wait on >> dirty pages after a time. With a large number of dirty pages backed by a >> slow drive such as a USB stick, it could be getting stalled there for a >> long period of time. >> >> Whether migration sleeps or not can be controlled by the sync parameter >> passed into try_to_compact_memory which could be always forced to false >> if GFP_NO_KSWAPD? > > I would expect that to hide any regression we could have because of > more dirty cache in the system, yes. > > However Jindřich reported not being able to reproduce anything anymore > in -rc3, so I'm unsure if we should make that change anymore. I asked > to try again cause it should too easy that got fixed magically
I tried again and reproduced with -rc3 too, sorry for misinformation.
I also tried echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag , and it seems preventing the system freeze, but still the copying itself sometimes comes to almost complete stop (GkrellM shows short spikes of tens of kB/s on the USB /dev/sdX). In this case, khugepaged is also in DN. I still didn't observe this problem when disabling THP completely by echo never > enabled .
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