Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:47:12 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFT](2) minimal rmap for 2.5 - akpm tested |
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On Wed, Jul 10 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday 10 July 2002 22:42, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Sebastian Droege wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 02:31:38 -0300 (BRT) > > > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > > > > > > If you have some time left this weekend and feel brave, > > > > please test the patch which can be found at: > > > > > > > > http://surriel.com/patches/2.5/2.5.25-rmap-akpmtested > > > > > after running your patch some time I have to say that the old VM > > > implementation and the full rmap patch (by Craig Kulesa) was better. The > > > system becomes very slow and has to swap in too much after some uptime > > > (4 hours - 2 days) and memory intensive tasks... > > > Maybe this happens only to me but it's fully reproducable > > > > It's a known problem with use-once. Users of plain 2.4.18 > > are complaining about it, too. > > Hey, thanks Rik, I know something about that :-) And I'd be testing right > now to see if you're right, if the DAC960 driver compiled successfully. > But it doesn't, and since my test machine won't boot without it... given a > choice between diving into the driver and going back to work on directory > hashing on 2.4...
Leonard has promised me to convert DAC960 to the "new" pci dma api for years (or so it seems, actual date may vary, no purchase necessary). I do have a Mylex controller here myself these days, so it's not completely impossible that I may do it on a rainy day.
-- Jens Axboe
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