Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:54:19 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached |
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:25:17PM -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >Yes, it may screw up some latency stuff, but quite frankly, even with your > >patch and even ignoring the call_rcu_bh case, I'm convinced you can easily > >get into the situation where softirqd just doesn't run soon enough. > > > >But at least I think I understand _why_ rcu processing was delayed. > > Could this be related to the "rename14 LTP test with /tmp as tmpfs and > HIGHMEM causes OOM-killer invocation due to zone normal exhaustion" issue?
Could very well be. Chris, could you please try booting with rcupdate.maxbatch=10000 and see if the problem goes away ?
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