Re: scheduling while atomic in z3fold

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Nov 30 2020 - 11:29:34 EST


On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:03 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-11-30 16:01:11 [+0100], Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 15:52 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > How do you test this? I triggered a few oom-killer and I have here git
> > > gc running for a few hours now… Everything is fine.
> >
> > In an LTP install, ./runltp -f mm. Shortly after box starts swapping
> > insanely, it explodes quite reliably here with either z3fold or
> > zsmalloc.. but not with zbud.
>
> This just passed. It however killed my git-gc task which wasn't done.
> Let me try tomorrow with your config.

FYI, I tried 5.9-rt (after fixing 5.9.11), it exploded in the same way,
so (as expected) it's not some devel tree oopsie.

-Mike