Re: Unnecessary mass OOM kills on Linux 3.11 virtualization host

2013-10-28 Thread Richard Davies
Dave Hansen wrote: > Richard Davies wrote: > > I further attach some other types of memory manager errors found in the > > kernel logs around the same time. There are several occurrences of each, but > > I have only copied one here for brevity: > > > > 19:18:27 ker

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] RX initialization sequence fixed - enable RX after corresponding ring initialization only

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Davies
Jeff Kirsher wrote: > Dmitry Fleytman wrote: > > Reported-by: Chris Webb > > Reported-by: Richard Davies > > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fleytman > > --- > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c |9 + > > drivers/ne

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Reduce compaction scanning and lock contention

2012-09-21 Thread Richard Davies
Mel Gorman wrote: > > I did manage to get a couple which were slightly worse, but nothing like as > > bad as before. Here are the results: > > > > # grep -F '[k]' report | head -8 > > 45.60% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c > > 11.26% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms]

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Reduce compaction scanning and lock contention

2012-09-21 Thread Richard Davies
Hi Mel, Thank you for this series. I have applied on clean 3.6-rc5 and tested, and it works well for me - the lock contention is (still) gone and isolate_freepages_block is much reduced. Here is a typical test with these patches: # grep -F '[k]' report | head -8 65.20% qemu-kvm [ker