Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:49:22 +0200 (MEST) | From | Hubert Mantel <> | Subject | Missing patch (was: buffers vs. pages vs. kernel speed) |
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Hubert Mantel wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Let's try this one... this has:
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> With this patch on a pre-2.0.31-2 Kernel I tried to create the 1Gig > filesystem on a 4MB machine. Until now I tried it three times and it > failed twice ;-(
David, your patch is again missing it's activation:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- linux-pre-2.0.31-2-DaveM/mm/page_alloc.c Sat Aug 17 20:19:29 1996 +++ linux-pre-2.0.31-test/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Jun 12 16:29:16 1997 @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ return 0; } restore_flags(flags); - if (priority != GFP_BUFFER && try_to_free_page(priority, dma, 1)) + if (try_to_free_page(priority, dma, 1)) goto repeat; return 0; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ After applying this, creation of filesystems with very small RAM seems to work reliably (tried it 5 times until now; no debug output so far).
I'll start the stress testing now.
Hubert mantel@suse.de
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