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From: Alan Jenkins on 26 Feb 2010 04:30
On 2/25/10, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> On 2/24/10, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> ...
>>
>> > - while (to_free_normal > 0 && to_free_highmem > 0) {
>> > + while (to_free_normal > 0 || to_free_highmem > 0) {
>>
>> Yes, that seems to do it. No more hangs so far (and I can still
>> reproduce the hang with too many applications if I un-apply the
>> patch).
>
> OK, great. Is this with or without the NOIO-enforcing patch?

With.

>> I did see a non-fatal allocation failure though, so I'm still not sure
>> that the current implementation is strictly correct.
>>
>> This is without the patch to increase "to_free_normal". If I get the
>> allocation failure again, should I try testing the "free 20% extra"
>> patch?
>
> Either that or try to increase SPARE_PAGES. That should actually work with
> the last patch applied. :-)
>
> Rafael

<grin>, OK.
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