Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix kswapd livelock on single core, no preempt kernel

[Mel Gorman]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:36:43PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> FYI, this was seen with a 2.6.39-based kernel with no-numa, no-memcg
> and swap-enabled.
> 

If this is 2.6.39, can you try applying the commit
[f06590bd: mm: vmscan: correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slab]

There have been a few fixes around kswapd hogging the CPU since 2.6.39.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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