On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > They certainly aren't enough, the kernel you're running suffers from a > > couple different memory compaction issues that were fixed in 3.7. I > > couldn't sympathize with your situation more, I faced the same issue > > because of thp and not slub (we use slab). > > > > > I'll try to reproduce the issue on raw 3.9. > > > > > I can't reproduce the issue on 3.9. > It seems that compaction fixes in 3.7 solve the problem. >
Yeah, we had significant problems with memory compaction in 3.3 and 3.4 kernels, so if you need to run with such a kernel you'll want to backport the listed commits. I'm not sure we could get such invasive changes into a stable release, unfortunately. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
